International aid groups help Haiti orphans

International aid groups, say tens of thousands of children have been orphaned by the earthquake. So many in fact, that officials won't venture a number.

With so many buildings destroyed and growing chaos in the capital, it's likely that many children are now alone.

International advocacy groups, are trying to help, either by speeding up adoptions already in progress, or by sending in relief personnel who could evacuate thousands of orphans to the US and other countries.

This five-month-old patient at the Israeli field hospital in Port-au-Prince has a number rather than a name.

No one even knows who brought the child to the makeshift medical center after he was pulled from the debris of a collapsed building four days after last week's earthquake.

Young children are seen at an orphanage following the earthquake that hit Port au Prince on January 12. (AFP/Julien Tack)