Haiti's streets transformed into camps
Updated on 18 January 2010
Haiti residents and agency workers interviewed by Jon Snow are concerned that any aid provided in the aftermath of the earthquake should be appropriate and properly targeted.
Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow asked one survivor what sort of help the Haitian people needed.
He replied: "Here we don’t really need money 'cause we cannot spend money for those things that we really need – things like water, dress and a place to live.
"People don’t really care about us. I don’t say that they can do nothing for us – but they used to do bad things.
"People don’t got to give money to anyone. They’ve got to come here to see people who need things and give them what they need. We need doctors there, we need medication. Things like that.”
JS: Did you lose your house?
"Yes. My house isn’t here, see? We got two bodies inside the house…"
JS: They are your family?
"Yes, my cousin and… They are still inside."
For more Channel 4 News coverage of the Haiti earthquake
- UN urges patience as Haiti frustrations rise
- Water and medicine in short supply
- Survivors pulled from the rubble
- Bodies buried in mass graves
- Blog: mountains to climb behind Haiti’s mountains
Jon Snow also spoke to an air worker, who stressed the importance of appropriate tasks being allocated to relevant agencies.
He said: "Every agency can see what they can do. We are not medical organisation.
"Some agencies can give medical help. But for them to be able to give those medical help, they need to know where the people are.
"There are some agencies that are responsible for food. We are not responsible for food. But for agencies to know where to give food help, they need where the people are.
"So leading the shelter cluster, we think that it’s important for us to know where the people are first so that we can share this information with other agencies.
"And we are really delighted and very, very happy that the mayor has taken all his time today to take us around, and we’ve been going throughout the town to see the people directly, talking directly to them, encouraging them."
