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Haiti’s Lines of Communications

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By TIME

With the country’s infrastructure badly damaged by the massive earthquake that struck Port-au-Prince, Haitians use cell phones and text messages to get information to loved ones at home and abroad

Hello?

A woman makes an international phone call at a "phone booth" set up for earthquake victims outside the remains of Leogane's main church in the center of the destroyed city.Evelyn Hockstein / Polaris

Reaching Out

People search for a mobile phone signal in the Bel Air neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. With phone lines and cellular towers badly damaged, it is difficult for Haitians to make calls.Shawn Thew / EPA

Search

A man tries to talk on a cell phone in Port-au-Prince.Frederic Dupoux / Getty

Tangled Lines

A man rents mobile phone chargers by the hour in downtown Port-au-Prince. Electricity is also scarce in the capital.Eduardo Munoz / Reuters

Gone

Richard Laurent (second from left) cries after receiving a phone call in New York informing him that a cousin in Haiti was killed.Seth Wenig / AP

Far Cry

Bernard Toussaint, in New York, tries to reach his mother in Haiti.Seth Wenig / AP

Grief

Yanieck Jolicoeur gets news about friends lost in her neighborhood in Haiti while caring for a friend's children at a Miami community center.Angel Valentin / Getty

A World Away

Willy Bisson, pastor of the Haitian Pentecostal Church in New Holland, Pennsylvania, reacts emotionally to news on the Internet about the earthquake.Dan Marschka / Intelligencer Journal / AP

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