After the quake, many people were left homeless and foodless. Desperate for their next meal, they went out on the streets of PART DU PRINCE lauding business and taking whatever they could carry back home to their friends and family members who were dying on a daily basis form starvation. Many people began crowding up outside the police station desperate for supplies of any kind. As people begun crowding up outside the police station, officers began beating people back until the barricades that were in place to protect the facility came crushing down under the weight of the desperate crowd, people fell into the streets and into the sidewalk until they got their hands on what they was in search for, which was the medical supplies and the food that was giving to them by the aid workers to pass out.
Even well established aid groups continue to struggle to distribute food, one prime example of an aid group that had issues with the crowd was the Worldview aid group whose volunteers were seen putting boxes of food back into their trucks after a crowd became frustrated when the aid workers ask the Haitian people to fill out forms before they received the food.
Aid agency Plan International's idea was that the Haitians would divide up the rice, or barter it for other supplies relief groups have created almost as many different ways to distribute food as there are improvised survivors' camps in Port-au-Prince. This was just one example of how aid distribution problems were solved after the earthquake.
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