Haiti: Fears of hunger as Haiti turmoil spreads

The fighting has already claimed many thousands of victims, from those whose bodies lie strewn in the streets, to others like Sarah and her family who were forced from their home last August and now live inside an abandoned cinema.

There is no sewerage or running water, and Sarah says their daily struggles to find food are becoming critical.

Sarah says disease is now spreading through their squatter community.

Drugs and medicines are often prohibitively expensive given their food budget rarely stretches to the basics.

“Sometimes the staff act like they’re doing us a favour when they give out the aid, and we feel humiliated,” she says, “as though we were taking their food instead of donations.”

“They’re actually hiring from all these local NGOs when they could just help, you know, by paying their staff members and giving them the aid to distribute themselves.”

Haiti’s gang violence has already taken so much from Sarah