Lilian, six years old and alone, still asks when her mother will return from the market on the edge of Les Cayes in southern Haiti, a port badly affected by the earthquake.
When last month’s earthquake struck, Lilian was at home as her mother, Genieve, was selling fruit a few blocks away. When the ground began to convulse, the market partly collapsed. Genieve was hit by falling concrete and buried under rubble. Her death has left Lilian without anyone to care for her. “I don’t see my mum,” Lilian would repeat, according to Ketia Loraus, 40, a social worker who has been overseeing her case. “It was heartbreaking to hear her say that.”
The human tragedy of the 7.2-magnitude earthquake has yet to be fully counted. More than 2,200 people…