Haiti earthquake: the children (31 images)

Children are among the most affected from the earthquake in Haiti. We share a collection of pictures that depict what some of these children have been dealing with since January 12th. There are a variety of ways to help the children and other earthquake victims. READ THE STORY: SMALLEST SURVIVORS POSE ONE OF THE BIGGEST PROBLEMS

A child waits to be medivaced by U.S. Army soldiers from the 82nd Airborne to the USNS Comfort in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies headed to Haiti as governments and aid agencies launched a massive relief operation after a powerful earthquake that may have killed thousands. Many buildings were reduced to rubble by the 7.0-strong quake on January 12. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

A child is seen in a a makeshift camp for people whose home were either destroyed or badly damaged from last week's earthquake in Port-au-Prince. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12, killing and injuring thousands and leaving many homeless. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Floria Loveng, 7, holds her teddy bear in a tent city of displaced Haitians whose homes were either destroyed or badly damaged in last week's massive earthquake in Port-au-Prince. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12, killing and injuring thousands and leaving many homeless. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Kennedy Siaw, from the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., unpacks stuffed animals for some of the children who come aboard the USNS Comfort, off the coast of Port-au-Prince, Haiti (AP Photo/The Baltimore Sun, Kim Hairston)

A young Haitian boy injured in last week's devastating earthquake is carried by two members of the U.S. Navy to a waiting medical evacuation helicopter for treatment aboard the U.S.S. Comfort in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The U.S. Navy, Coast Guard, Army and Africa Partnership Station are working together to coordinate a triage and medical evacuation unit from the Killick Coast Guard Station for victims of the earthquake. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

A woman and a boy cover their faces as they walk through a smoke from burning trash at a refugee camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

A Red Cross worker holds a baby who had been suffering from severe dehydration in the central hospital of Port-au-Prince in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Aid has started trickling out to Haitians devastated by last week's earthquake that ravaged the country, though many fear not enough will reach desperate citizens in time to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

A member of the Royal Dutch Airforce carries a Haitian child wrapped in a blanket to a bus after arriving at Eindhoven airport, central Netherlands. A Dutch airplane carrying 106 children from Haiti who are slated for adoption has arrived at a military airport in the city of Eindhoven. Reporters waiting on the tarmac Thursday saw the children, aged 6 months to 7 years, being carried from the plane, wrapped in blue blankets. The adoption agencies that organized the mission say all but nine of the children have already been matched with new parents in the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The others will be placed in foster care while awaiting adoption. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Children board a bus headed for the airport in Port-au-Prince. Several children, orphans whose orphanage was damaged in the Jan. 12 earthquake, are being sent to France by the school Lycee Francais and the French Embassy in Haiti, and already have adoptive parents waiting. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

A child with an injured leg is carried outside of a hospital in Petionville on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Medical clinics have patient backlogs, untreated injuries are festering and makeshift camps housing thousands of survivors could foster disease, experts have warned. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Boys line up with thousands of others as they wait for food at a refugee camp on a golf course in Port-au-Prince. A powerful earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12, killing and injuring thousands. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

French consulate Jean Pierre Guegan checks for Rose Prioul's name on his manifest before loading the child on a bus for the airport in Port-au-Prince. Several children, orphans whose orphanage was damaged in Jan. 12 earthquake, are being sent to France by the school Lycee Francais and the French Embassy in Haiti, and already have adoptive parents waiting. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

A Haitian child wrapped in a blanket is being carried to a bus after arriving at Eindhoven airport, central Netherlands. A Dutch airplane carrying 106 children from Haiti who are slated for adoption has arrived at a military airport in the city of Eindhoven. Reporters waiting on the tarmac Thursday saw the children, aged 6 months to 7 years, being carried from the plane, wrapped in blue blankets. The adoption agencies that organized the mission say all but nine of the children have already been matched with new parents in the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The others will be placed in foster care while awaiting adoption. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

In this handout image provided by the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), a Haitian sits with her children at a camp for displaced people in the southern coastal town of Jacmel, Haiti. Humanitarian aid is beginning to reach many of the survivors of last week's deadly magnitude 7.0 earthquake amid fatalities estimated in the tens of thousands and widespread devastation. (Photo by Logan Abassi/MINUSTAH via Getty Images)

Swiss medical assistant Christoph Scharf, of the Switzerland Humanitarian Aid group, holds a girl injured during the earthquake at the central hospital in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. A 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

A Haitian boy pours water on himself at a broken water line in a street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Aid has started trickling out to Haitians devastated by last weeks earthquake that ravaged the country, though many fear not enough will reach desparate citizens in time to prevent humanitarian catastrophe. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

A seriously wounded Haitian boy screams in pain as he his transferred to a gurney for airlifting to the hospital ship USS Comfort at the central hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A part of the 82nd Airborne Division's mission in Haiti is guarding the main hospital complex and helping transport the seriously wounded for helicopter airlift from the grounds of the National Palace. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

Haitian boys talk to a soldier in the 82nd Airborne Division through the razor wire separating a displacement camp from a hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A part of the 82nd Airborne Division's mission in Haiti is guarding hosptials and helping transport the seriously wounded for helicopter airlift. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

People wash off in water spraying from a pipe that broke during a magnitude-6.1 aftershock in Port-au-Prince. The most powerful aftershock yet struck Haiti on Wednesday, shaking more rubble from damaged buildings and sending people running into the streets eight days after the nation's capital was devastated by a quake. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Sonsonne Semtembre, 9, center, hangs on to a tree branch as he tries to stay in line with others to receive disaster relief supplies at the US 82nd Airborne Division's forward operating base in Port-au-Prince. International aid flowing into Haiti has been struggling with logistical problems, and many people are still desperate for food and water. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

A young Haitian girl injured in last week's devastating earthquake waits for a medical evacuation helicopter at the Killick Coast Guard Station for treatment aboard the U.S.S. Comfort in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The U.S. Navy, Coast Guard, Army and Africa Partnership Station are working together to coordinate a triage and medical evacuation unit from the Killick Coast Guard Station for victims of the earthquake. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

US Army Lt. Col. Robert Malsby of Marietta, Georgia (R) of the 82nd Airborne Division comforts Narlie, age 4, who was seriously wounded in the Haitian earthquake and has been earmarked for emergency care aboard the USS Comfort in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Part of the 82nd Airborne Division's mission in Haiti is to guard the main hospital complex while helping transport the seriously wounded for helicopter airlift from the grounds of the nearby National Palace. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

Orphaned children sit together at the Maison des Enfants De Dieu orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Many countries including the United States have fast-tracked adoptions in the aftermath of the powerful earthquake. Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies headed to Haiti as governments and aid agencies launched a massive relief operation after a powerful earthquake that may have killed thousands. Many buildings were reduced to rubble by the 7.0-strong quake on January 12. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Floria Loveng, 7, hugs her teddy bear in a tent city of displaced Haitians whose homes were either destroyed or badly damaged in last week's massive earthquake in Port-au-Prince. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12, killing and injuring thousands and leaving many homeless. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

A Haitian child wrapped in a blanket walks to a bus after arriving at Eindhoven airport, central Netherlands. A Dutch airplane carrying 106 children from Haiti who are slated for adoption has arrived at a military airport in the city of Eindhoven. Reporters waiting on the tarmac Thursday saw the children, aged 6 months to 7 years, being carried from the plane, wrapped in blue blankets. The adoption agencies that organized the mission say all but nine of the children have already been matched with new parents in the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The others will be placed in foster care while awaiting adoption. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

In this handout provided by the U.S. Navy, 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 in Jacmel, Haiti. U.S. and international military units and civilian aid agencies are conducting humanitarian and disaster relief operations as part of Operation Unified Response in the aftermath of last week's deadly earthquake. (Photo by Daniel Barker/U.S. Navy via Getty Images)

A child evacuated from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti waits to board a bus at O’Hare Airport in Chicago, Illinois. Around 70 Hatian-Americans arrived at O'Hare this evening on a United Airlines flight that was returning from Haiti after dropping off a shipment of aid. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

In this photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, Petty Officer 2nd Class Jose Estrada, an Information Technician aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma, rushes an injured Haitian girl to an awaiting Coast Guard HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter. The Coast Guard and Navy both provided aircrews to medevac the injured to Milot, Haiti to receive additional assistance. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, Petty Officer 3rd Class Brandyn Hill)

A boy looks through the barbed wire set up by UN peacekeepers outside a food distribution center in Leogane, Haiti. The massive international aid flowing into Haiti after last week's earthquake has been struggling with logistical problems, and many people are still desperate for food and water. (AP Ricardo Arduengo)

Emerson Refuse, 9, rests while recovering from injuries suffered in an earthquake at the Killick Haitian Coast Guard Base in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The Haitian Coast Guard is working together with the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Navy and the U.S. Army to treat injuries at a field hospital set up at the base. Last Jan. 12, a massive earthquake struck Haiti injuring thousands.(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)