KERRY O'BRIEN, PRESENTER: In the aftermath of the January earthquake that devastated Haiti, we reported on the plight of two children who symbolised the nation's suffering. One had lost his parents, the other had been pulled from the rubble after surviving for more than a week. Two months after the disaster, ABC correspondent Craig McMurtrie went back to Haiti to try to track them down and to find out what life is now like for the children of the sprawling tent cities in the devastated capital, Port-au-Prince.
CRAIG MCMURTRIE, REPORTER: How do you find one child in a place where more than a million people are living out in the open? One little boy among so many.
We had first met Jimmy when he appeared outside our compound, naked and in shock, in the chaos that followed the earthquake.
CRAIG MCMURTRIE: His father is in prison and his mother he doesn't know where she is.
He could tell us his name, but little else.
CRAIG MCMURTRIE: So who's looking after him?
He doesn't know where his family is.
CRAIG MCMURTRIE: Two months on, our Haitian producer had tracked him down to this camp.
It's been weeks since the earthquake, but these tent cities are still growing and in the ragged maze of shelters a physical search was next to useless.
But word of mouth travels like wildfire in an overcrowded camp, and out of a scrum of little boys, there he was, wearing the same clothes we'd given him weeks before.
He wants to go somewhere else. Yeah, he wants to go live somewhere else.
CRAIG MCMURTRIE: School has reopened here, but he doesn't go he says because he doesn't have enough clothes. Jimmy shows us where he's living in a dirt floor makeshift tent with his aunt and five others, including his brother.
He shows us his one prized toy which he shares.
His aunt says his father wants nothing to do with him. She still doesn't know where his mother is.
CRAIG MCMURTRIE: The truth is that living in camps like this is really a matter of survival. The people here tell us that when the camera's not around, Jimmy isn't as shy as he appears. Like so many of the other kids here, he's become streetwise. His nickname, according to other children, is "the little rat" because during the day he's out on the streets like so many of the other children here begging. They have to beg to earn money, to get clothes, whatever they need to survive.
The sense of hopelessness is almost overwhelming. We give them money for food and Jimmy more clothes.
In the aftermath of the earthquake there was also the story of 11-year-old Fedora Sanu, pulled from the rubble of her home after being trapped for nine days.
DOCTOR: It's a miracle, it's a success story. We have to enjoy that. And it's a blessed girl.
CRAIG MCMURTRIE: Two months on, friends and family still call her "God's miracle".
FEDORA SANU (voiceover translation): She was sitting home eating potato chips and she heard the noise. And then she says, "Jesus is coming."
CRAIG MCMURTRIE: She tells me she's feeling fine, though her legs are hurting. Her smile is dazzling and she's something of a local celebrity, but she has nightmares.
Fedora, her mother and four surviving brothers and sisters share their shelter with other homeless families. Her mother says she's been traumatised not only by the quake, but their new living conditions.
MOTHER: It's very difficult. We didn't expect this kind of living. It's painful. And it's - life is hard.
FEDORA SANU (voiceover translation): She would love for the people of the world to basically turn Haiti into a more beautiful, better country by rebuilding the school and giving people that are - have no home a home, a place to stay so they don't have to live the way we live in this space.
CRAIG MCMURTRIE: Children make up nearly half of this impoverished nation's population, and for so many of Haiti's young, the earthquake has left an all-too-visible mark.
This workshop run by Handicap International has only just opened. He was a runner. She was a dancer, until January 12 changed everything.
In the crazy days straight after the earthquake, there were thousands of amputations and little or no hospital records kept.
WENDELL ENDLEY, HANDICAP INTERNATIONAL: I worked in Kosovo just after the war. I was in Vietnam for a number of years and I've come here and it's just overwhelming. Absolutely. And the types of injuries are really just - you cannot imagine.
CRAIG MCMURTRIE: In a corner sits an inexpressibly sad eight-year-old. His name is Balnave and part of the wall of his house crushed his lower left leg. The earthquake also took his mother, so now he lives with his 32-year-old aunt who lost her husband and children.
CRAIG MCMURTRIE: Balnave just stares and hardly says anything. It's impossible to know what he's thinking as he's asked to balance on his one remaining leg and throw a ball. Or as a caring stranger starts wrapping his stump.
South African Wendell Endley leads an international team of technicians from as far afield as France and El Salvador. Thanks to charitable donations, their services, the equipment and the artificial leg they're making for Balnave which will need readjusting as he grows are free.
MARIE LOURDE ULYSSE, AUNT (voiceover translation): She feel very good about it. She had no money to provide him with the prosthetics, so they give him the opportunity to have something that he probably would not have had ever.
CRAIG MCMURTRIE: But his aunt also tells me she has no hope for their future because they have nowhere to go, and she says she has no idea how Balnave will survive in Haiti with one leg, which may be why there is no smile as he stands for the first time and no smile as he takes his first step. Like his broken country, he needs so much. One frightened and confused little boy facing an uncertain future.
KERRY O'BRIEN: Just some of the heart-wrenching images of Haiti after the earthquake from Craig McMurtrie.