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from World Food Program

from World Vision

World Vision began distributions of clothes, hygiene kits, dried biscuits, and bottled water to 750 homeless families in Canape Vert and Petionville in Port-au-Prince over the weekend.

The distributions were made at a car-wreckers yard in Petionville and in a disused lot in Canape Vert where the homeless had camped out. Some slept under roughly erected tarpaulins, others under the stars.
Beneficiary Dine Paul held on tightly to her 1-year-old daughter Julissa as the crowd jostled around her. “It’s good to see the aid coming but we want to see more,” she said.

Critical needs: food, clean water

Community organizer Mazard Guy, speaking at the car yard, said it was the first time the 457 people camped there had received a formal distribution of aid. They had relied on people in the neighborhood generously giving out basic supplies. “Our biggest need is food and water,” he said, adding that a number camped at the yard were suffering from dehydration.
Mother Marie Joe said sometimes there was not even a sip of water to be had with which to take her medications.
It was not her only concern. Her son Jean Stevenson, 8, sustained head injuries when one of the walls in his home fell on him during the quake. Marie said he still suffers headaches and is scared to go indoors. As she related her story, many more beneficiaries pressed forward, pointing to their bandaged arms and injured legs. Many also wore head bandages like Jean.