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ON ASSIGNMENT: HAITI EARTHQUAKE 2010: "The Elderly"
![Idamise Pierre leans against a tree, her withered skin resembling its bark, as she waits to bathe at the Azil Communal Home for the Aging. With weary resignation, the elderly have endured decades of Haiti's poverty and political turmoil and in their twilight years are now left with heavy hearts by the earthquake that eternally altered their lives.© Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post 2010ALL RIGHTS RESERVED](http://cdn.lightgalleries.net/4bd5ebf58f340/images/PULITZER19-3.jpg "\")
"The Elderly" ,
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
Idamise Pierre leans against a tree, her withered skin resembling its bark, as she waits to bathe at the Azil Communal Home for the Aging. With weary resignation, the elderly have endured decades of Haiti's poverty and political turmoil and in their twilight years are now left with heavy hearts by the earthquake that eternally altered their lives.
© Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post 2010
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED