parents. the term orphanage is a technical term here in haiti. as you saw, cendy has a mom and dad but when we got her she didn t have them. the term orphanage it s a difficult one. because in technically, they re not orphans. but in some sense, they are because they ll really don t have their mom and their dad. because if the situation here in haiti, the kids are so impoverished and i try not to judge that because i ve never lived in that state of destitution. reporter: bill and suzette open the orphanage to address just these circumstances. this may or may not be her baby because a really big thing in haiti is that babies mothers or lady also rent babies from other mothers saying that they will take care of their bei beis so the mother can work and then the baby helps her to earn a
she doesn t know what this meeting means, probably. she saw you last time a long time ago, 18 months. asks her if she remembers you. cendy reporter: cendy has lived with bill and suzette for more than two years. she doesn t want to leave, necessarily, right? cendy s mother, khatia, is unsure what to do. translator: no one was looking after her. i gave her to her father to take away. reporter: her father didn t keep her either. after she showed up at the orphanage he suspects that his aunt profited from giving up cendy. suzette assuring him that s not the case. tell them thank you for
playing and singing ] reporter: two weeks after the earthquake, the orphanage felt almost normal again. cendy and the girls got ready for bed. maccenson cleaned up the guest house. but outside the security guards are nervous. parts of the walls are still broken from the earthquake. suddenly, something stirs in the dark. i woke up to a gunshot blast. when we got up, the guard out back here had chased off a band of thieves. reporter: as many as 20 armed thieves come over the wall of the guest house.
reporter: and cendy june can still go to kindergarten, even as three-quarters of haiti s schools are in ruins. before the earthquake, the students, they are usually happy when they come to work but after the earthquake, i cannot they are very sad. reporter: the students are affected? yeah. they are very sad. reporter: it s hard for them. yeah. will haiti recover from this? no. never? never. reporter: never? never. reporter: ke sfiet his lack of hope he s teaching cendy how to read. show me the letter i. yay for cendy! reporter: what would you hope for her to be? cendy at her best. self-assured child, who loves herself and loves others and loves god. reporter: this earthquake isn t the greatest obstacle,
wants to let the woman stay, though food is running out. we may have some more bread in there. so i think we re pretty good for a couple of days. reporter: the mother has not eaten in a week. she breastfeeds her. arianna is persuasive. she s beautiful. thank god god spares her life, this little one. it s a miracle. most babies die with their parents. god saved her life. reporter: suzette relents. they add two more to their shaky circumstances. because of the aftershocks, cendy and the girls are sleeping outside. she is surrounded by anxiety and grief. her best friend, herte, was trapped in the rubble.