Jose Morelos

On our way to City Sole, a community in Port-au-Prince, we were stopped by a man waving.  He told us that none had come to help his community of a few thousand. At least 30 had died there and there were some still missing. There were many injured. He begged us to come and see. A crowd soon followed us. We saw several houses that had collapsed. You could not conceive anybody surviving after the crumbling of all the structures.

According to some of the people following us some of the collapsed structures still had bodies in them. Many were living on makeshift tents in what was the community park. The tents were made of plastic bags held together by pieces of wood from pallets. We saw several injured. One was a women laying under a tent in a back yard. She had wounds on her back and hips that seemed infected. We saw babies sleeping on sheets on the ground. The people were angry that nobody had come to help.