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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- It has been one year since a powerful earthquake rocked the tiny island nation of Haiti.

The quake hit on Jan. 12, 2010.

The 7.0 magnitude earthquake killed an estimated 230,000 people, injured another 300,000 and left 1 million Haitians homeless.

A year later, the recovery is still underway.

Compassion International has been helping the poor in Haiti since the 1960s, so they were in prime position to offer aid when the quake hit.

Things are still bleak in the country of Haiti

After the quake came massive floods. Then a cholera outbreak. And in many places Haiti still looks like it did a year ago.

"Lots of rubble is still in place, and people were still having difficulty removing rubble from their property," Compassion International Senior Vice President Mark Hanlon said.

It has been a long road to even get to this point, and Compassion International has been there every step of the way.

"We found all but 100 children of the the close to the 30,000 that were impacted," Hanlon said.

Then Compassion took in thousands more Haitian children who lost their parents in the quake.

"In our program there was close to 4,000 children who were orphaned, and that puts them in a very vulnerable position," Hanlon said.

Despite the complete devastation across Port Au Prince, Compassion International is betting on hope for the future.

"Our immediate goal is to get our program back on its feet as much as possible make things as normal as possible for the children that we are serving," Hanlon said.

In some places, glimmers of a better future shine through the bleak reality of today, and the resourcefulness of the Haitian people has them finding unique solutions to make their lives better.

"Very innovative and ingenious ways to use these big shipping containers where windows and doors had been cut in in order to provide a quick somewhat stable environment for the project and the church to get back on its feet for those kids to get some sense of normalcy in their lives," Hanlon said

Wednesday at 4:53 p.m., the time the quake hit, Compassion will hold a ceremony in Haiti to remember all those that were lost.