Ten days after the massive earthquake in Haiti, some 80,000 of the estimated 200,000 dead have been buried, two million residents now find themselves homeless, and hundreds of thousands of them are now trying to flee the capital city. Rescue crews are beginning to abandon hope of finding any further survivors in the rubble - the last person to be pulled out alive was on was rescued on Wednesday, the 20th. Aid agencies are still ramping up their efforts - the Red Cross alone has deployed what it calls its greatest deployment of emergency responders in its 91-year history. Collected here are some closer looks into recent events in Haiti, seen through the faces of the survivors and the recently-arrived security, rescue and care workers
1.A man touches his newborn baby, born three days ago, at the Israeli hospital in Port-au-Prince January 20, 2010.
2.A Peruvian peacekeeper screams as he tries to control a crowd during food distribution for earthquake survivors at a warehouse in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010.
3.A young earthquake survivor poses as she rests inside her makeshift tent on a street in Port-au-Prince January 19, 2010.
4.A man grieves over the dead body of a relative who just passed away after being rescued from the rubble January 19, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 
5. U.N. peacekeeper guards food supplies to be distributed by the World Food Program on January 17, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Aid agencies are struggling to distribute food as quickly as possible but face major logistical problems in doing so caused by the massive earthquake that took place on January 12. 
6.A child waits to be medivaced by U.S. Army soldiers from the 82nd Airborne to the hospital ship USNS Comfort on January 21, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 
7.Earthquake survivor Hotteline Lozama, 26, smiles as she was pulled out from the rubble by French aid group Secouristes Sans Frontieres in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010.
8.Oscar Oliva, a member of a Mexican search and rescue team, cries with joy on January 19, 2010 as he embraces a fellow rescuer after the group pulled 69-year old Ena Zizi from the rubble of Haiti's devastating earthquake, exactly one week after the city was reduced to ruins in a matter of seconds. Zizi was rescued from the collapsed home of the parish priest at Port-au-Prince' s Roman Cathedral Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption. 
9.Medical professionals aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort treat a six-year-old Haitian boy in the casualty receiving room aboard the 1,000-bed hospital ship January 19, 2010. The boy transferred to Comfort by helicopter from the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson for treatment for an injury to his bladder and a hip fracture during the earthquake.
10.A survivor of the January 12 earthquake carries debris in the Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Belair on January 19, 2010.
11.Elizabeth, an 18-day-old infant, rests in a tent hospital after spending eight days trapped in her home before being rescued during earthquake relief efforts January 20, 2010 in Jacmel, Haiti.
13.Blood on her visor, Pier Boutin, an orthopedic surgeon from Fairview Hospital in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, uses a hacksaw to amputate a woman's leg in Port Au Prince General Hospital on January 16th, 2010.
14.Tears run down the cheeks of four-year-old Aikta as she waits for treatment at a makeshift hospital run by B-FAST (Belgian First Aid and Support Team) in a suburb of Port-au-Prince January 20, 2010.
16.A man sells coal at an outdoor market in the Cite Soleil neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010.
18.Desir Dieudonne, 24 and her 6-year-old-son Francois Wiltens, mourn the death of her 4-year-old child in Port-au-Prince, January 19, 2010.
19.A Haitian man lies on the ground, injured and bloody, after he was beaten by civilians that accused him of stealing food January 20, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
20.U.S. Army Private First Class Thomas of the 82nd Airborne Division, stands among a crowd of about 2,000 people to help maintain order as they line up for water distribution at a camp set up on a golf course in Port-au- Prince, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010.
21.A boy reacts as he undergoes hand surgery in a makeshift hospital after the earthquake in Port-au-Prince January 17, 2010.
22.Two people look back as internally displaced Haitians line up for food during a UN distribution in Port-au-Prince on January 18, 2010.
23.A child evacuated from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti waits to board a bus at O'Hare Airport January 20, 2010 in Chicago, Illinois. Around 70 Haitian-Americans arrived at O'Hare this evening on a United Airlines flight that was returning from Haiti after dropping off a shipment of aid.
24.A U.S. marine carries bottled water after landing in a rural area outside Port-au-Prince January 19, 2010. U.S. Black Hawk helicopters swooped down on Haiti's wrecked presidential palace to deploy troops and supplies on Tuesday as a huge international relief operation to help earthquake survivors gained momentum.
26.A young Haitian man cries out in pain as his mother comforts him while being treated for a trauma wound on his arm at the Center Hospitalier de la Renaissance January 20, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Patients are being treated on the grounds of the hospital by Cuban and German doctors due to fears of the building's structural integrity.
27.A Haitian woman looks away as looters rummage through boxes pulled out of rubble in the downtown commercial district of Port-au-Prince January 19, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
28.A seriously wounded Haitian boy screams in pain as he is transferred to a gurney for airlifting to the hospital ship USNS Comfort on January 21, 2010 at the central hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
29.A Belgian emergency worker closes his eyes for a moment as he labors to free Rosemene Josiane, 28, who had been trapped in the rubble of her house for days after the earthquake January 15, 2010 in Port au Prince, Haiti. A group of B-FAST (Belgian First Aid and Support Team) members worked most of the day to free the woman, who had her legs pinned under concrete; in the end, the emergency workers had to anesthetize her and amputate one leg to free her.
30.A man injured during last week's earthquake bites down on a piece of wood as he receives medical attention at a Centre Hospitalier De La Renaissance hospital in Port-au-Prince, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010.
31.Joe Lang, a firefighter- paramedic from Orleans, Massachusetts (left) and Curt Audin, a Registered Nurse from Massachusetts General Hospital, treat a head wound of a young boy in a camp for people displaced by last week's earthquake.
32.A woman argues with a firefighter during water distribution after Tuesday's earthquake in Port-au-Prince, January 16, 2010.
33.A Haitian woman waits for treatment inside Port Au Prince General Hospital on January 16th, 2010.
34.A boy fights for food during a food distribution in front of the airport in Port-au-Prince January 20, 2010.
36.A woman stands in line with about 2,000 other people as U.S. Army soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division distribute one liter of water each at a camp set up on a golf course in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010.
37.An orphaned child lays on the ground at the Maison des Enfants De Dieu orphanage on January 20, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Many countries including the United States have fast-tracked adoptions in the aftermath of the powerful earthquake.
38.A Haitian woman is crushed while reaching for food and water being distributed by a relief agency in Petion Ville, Haiti on January 21st, 2010.
39.Haitian looters lay on the floor after being detained by police in Port-au-Prince on January 21, 2010.
40.A young woman combs her hair as she sits in a field hospital outside the Villa Creole Hotel in Port-au-Prince, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010.
41.A boy, bleeding from the head, grimaces after he was beaten during looting of quake-damaged stores in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010.
42.A Haitian woman poses outside her tent at a makeshift refugee camp in Port-au-Prince January 19, 2010.
43.Armante Cherisma cries in front of the body of her daughter, Fabienne, 15 years old, killed by a policeman while looting wall hangings in the Marthely Seiee street January 19, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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