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UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie visits Haiti to listen and learn.

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The 7.0 earthquake that devastated Haiti on January 12, 2010 claimed the lives of at least 150,000 people and left more than 300,000 homeless. In the immediate aftermath, UNHCR focused on providing essential materials such as plastic sheeting, blankets and hygiene kits.

Though the emergency phase is now over, many of those affected by the quake remain homeless and in dire need of assistance.

An injured child is tended to at the Hotel Villa Creole in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. The strongest earthquake in more than 200 years struck Haiti, collapsing a hospital where people screamed for help and heavily damaging the National Palace, U.N. peacekeeper headquarters and other buildings. © AP Photo/I. DemersA Haitian woman is helped after being trapped in rubble. © AP Photo/I. DemersA UNHCR van transports 500 kits of hygienic and household items to host families housing earthquake victims. © UNHCR / J. Björgvinsson / March 2010UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie talks to a 10-year-old Haitian boy who lost a limb during the January 12 earthquake in Haiti. © Marco di Lauro/UNHCR via Getty ImagesHaitian children sitting on a stone next to the Peruvian UN MINUSTAH military border base at Cachiman as UNHCR convoy waits for escort. © UNHCR / J. Björgvinsson / March 2010A Peruvian soldier, member of the UN MINUSTAH force in Haiti takes up position as inhabitants of the village of Dos Palais help to unload 250 non food family kits from a UNHCR commissioned van. © UNHCR / J. Björgvinsson / March 2010A crowd waiting for distribution hold up their distribution coupons issued by the commune. © UNHCR / J. Björgvinsson / March 2010Recipients of buckets with hygienic and household items study the contents of the bucket. © UNHCR / J. Björgvinsson / March 2010Camp residents attending a Sunday service at Camp Hope. Camp Hope is a camp housing 669 displaced persons. The camp sprung up to cope with discharged patients from the nearby Love A Child hospital who needed accommodation. © UNHCR / J. Björgvinsson / March 2010Women pumping water at the Camp Hope. © UNHCR / J. Björgvinsson / March 2010Children outside an UNHCR tent in Camp Hope. The camp has received tents and protection assistance from the UNHCR. © UNHCR / J. Björgvinsson / March 2010Rosalie Fournier, UNHCR Protection Officer talking to patient Marie Anne Lubin (far right). Marie Anne and her sister, Jean Louis Ketly (standing in the background) were left homeless by the 12th January earthquake. © UNHCR / J. Björgvinsson / March 2010A man on crutches walking down an aisle of the tent camp outside the Love A Child field hospital. UNHCR Protection Officers, Rosalie Fournier and Ariel Riva stand in the background. © UNHCR / J.Björgvinsson / March 2010Ariel Riva, UNHCR Protection Officer, talking to an interpreter at the Love A Child field hospital in Fond Parisien. © UNHCR / J. Björgvinsson / March 2010Rosalie Fournier, UNHCR Protection Officers (on left) and Ariel Riva(on right) talking to patient Guilène Resilme. Guilene is homeless and without a care person. The UNHCR Protection Officers offer Guilène support as she is being discharged. "I was studying sewing before the earthquake, and am looking for ways to ways to continue, although it is going to be difficult with all education and a standstill in the devastated zone", says Guilène. ©UNHCR / J. Björgvinsson / March 2010