‘People here are used to dealing with incredible challenges all the time. These are bigger.’

Outreach workers who go into Cap Haitien’s poorest slums, work out of a health clinic at Fort Saint Michel funded by Portland-based Konbit Sante.

The head of a Maine-based  nonprofit is trying to get Cap Haitien to prepare for a surge of victims.

Without the years of support from Konbit Sante, Justinian Hospital’s situation would have been ‘catastrophic’ in the aftermath of the earthquake.

Judy Carl, in Cap Haitien to teach English at a hospital, helps caregivers aid dozens of victims.

Four women who already had plans to visit northern Haiti are carrying supplies and helping in other ways.

Justinian Hospital, where the injured who can be airlifted from Port-au-Prince are being cared for, is the Mainers’ destination.