Dorothy Pearce who has not received any medical training, cuts dead flesh from an open wound on an injured child's foot as she screams in agony at the Faith Hope Love Infant Rescue Orphanage managed by a US citizen named Dorothy Pearce on February 4, 2010 in Port Au Prince, Haiti. Dorothy Pearce a US Citizen founded the Faith Hope Love Infant Rescue five years ago answering what she describes as a 'call by God' to leave her job as a real estate agent in Miami to come to Haiti. She runs the organization from her home in Port-au-Prince taking in children whose families are unable to support them. She is currently caring for 20 children. In the backyard strewn with rubbish, ten babies lie sleeping on the dirty concrete floor under a canopy of plastic sheeting, many are newborn. The older children play largely unobserved by the nannies barefoot amongst rusted tins and dirty nappies. A fetid swimming pool is covered with a cloud of mosquitoes. Three dogs, whose feces litter the small concrete play area, lick the children's faces as they play and lie on the floor. Several of the children are HIV positive and many suffer with severe disabilities. Most of the children appear listless, either clamouring to be held or curled up sleeping awkwardly on the floor. Others sit crying, unattended. One of the children, Alexandra, 2, was injured in the earthquake. Pearce who has not received any medical training, cuts dead flesh from an open wound on the injured child's foot as she screams in agony. Pearce has not registered her charity with the Haitian government and the orphanage is entirely unregulated. Prior to the earthquake that devastated the island on January 12th, there were an estimated 380,000 children living in orphanages in Haiti, 500 of which were unregistered. Since the disaster, in which thousands of children were separated from their families, the dangers facing Haiti's orphans have never been more acute. (Photo by Marco Di Lauro/G
{"Image ImageDescription": "PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI - FEBRUARY 4: Dorothy Pearce who has not received any medical training, cuts dead flesh from an open wound on an injured child's foot as she screams in agony at the Faith Hope Love Infant Rescue Orphanage managed by a US citizen named Dorothy Pearce on February 4, 2010 in Port Au Prince, Haiti. Dorothy Pearce a US Citizen founded the Faith Hope Love Infant Rescue five years ago answering what she describes as a \"call by God\" to leave her job as a real estate agent in Miami to come to Haiti. She runs the organization from her home in Port-au-Prince taking in children whose families are unable to support them. She is currently caring for 20 children. In the backyard strewn with rubbish, ten babies lie sleeping on the dirty concrete floor under a canopy of plastic sheeting, many are newborn. The older children play largely unobserved by the nannies barefoot amongst rusted tins and dirty nappies. A fetid swimming pool is covered with a cloud of mosquitoes. Three dogs, whose feces litter the small concrete play area, lick the children's faces as they play and lie on the floor. Several of the children are HIV positive and many suffer with severe disabilities. Most of the children appear listless, either clamouring to be held or curled up sleeping awkwardly on the floor. Others sit crying, unattended. One of the children, Alexandra, 2, was injured in the earthquake. Pearce who has not received any medical training, cuts dead flesh from an open wound on the injured child's foot as she screams in agony. Pearce has not registered her charity with the Haitian government and the orphanage is entirely unregulated. Prior to the earthquake that devastated the island on January 12th, there were an estimated 380,000 children living in orphanages in Haiti, 500 of which were unregistered. Since the disaster, in which thousands of children were separated from their families, the dangers facing Haiti's orphans have never been more acute.  (Photo by Marco Di Lauro/G", "Image Copyright": "2010 Marco Di Lauro"}