People gather outside the White House in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018, during a vigil commemorating the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria hitting Puerto Rico.
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Gilberto Cosme Rodriguez takes one of his asthma treatments to help him breathe inside his home still covered with a tarp after FEMA assistance failed to cover the cost of fixing his roof that was torn off by last year’s Hurricane Maria in Naranjito, Puerto Rico.
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Vegetation grows over a car that was abandoned one year ago during Hurricane Maria in the San Lorenzo neighborhood of Morovis, Puerto Rico.
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A woman with her child receives free diapers and shower gel, as she and others line up for food and other donated staples from the MARC Ministry, a non-profit charity in Manati, Puerto Rico.
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Elia de Jesus Acebedo waits in line for donated food and other basic goods from the MARC Ministry, a non-profit charity in Manati, Puerto Rico.
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A girl helps her mother carry donated food and other staples handed out to needy residents by the MARC Ministry, a non-profit charity in Manati, Puerto Rico. Charity workers say the number of needy lining up for food has doubled since the storm, and there are days when they run out of food.
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Farm worker Angel Reyes gets a haircut by barber Luis Otero, who offers his service at a bus stop for $7, on the road between Morovis to Orocovis, Puerto Rico.
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A trailer destroyed one year ago by Hurricane Maria stands on the side of the road in Orocovis, Puerto Rico.
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Alma Morales Rosario poses for a portrait between the beams of her home being rebuilt after it was destroyed by Hurricane Maria one year ago in the San Lorenzo neighborhood of Morovis, Puerto Rico.
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A piano stands in a restaurant destroyed one year ago by Hurricane Maria in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico.
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A man with back problems uses his cane to carry food and other staples donated from the MARC Ministry, a non-profit charity in Manati, Puerto Rico.
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Ramon Alicea Burgos walks past his palm tree, with its top broken off one year ago by Hurricane Maria, outside his partially rebuilt home in the mountain town of Barranquitas, Puerto Rico.
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Ramon Alicea Burgos washes a plate in his partially rebuilt home, unfinished for lack of funds in the mountain town of Barranquitas, Puerto Rico.
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Ramon Alicea Burgos puts his shoes on as he leaves the temporary room he built.
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Ramon Alicea Burgos uses a flashlight to read the time on his wall clock in a temporary wooden room.
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