The need continues in Haiti

Transcript:

Kevin Jenkins: We're at a food distribution site in Port-au-Prince about two months after the earthquake that occurred on January 12th. And what we're seeing is something that happens every day, all around Port-au-Prince. 

World Vision, working with the World Food Programme has seven different sites and many other agencies are working with the World Food Programme. And here you see almost exclusively women - women of all ages: young mothers, older women - coming and collecting food, and its a very difficult thing to think that, in order to do this in an orderly way there are UN soldiers all around us. And, so, if this is where we're at two months down the road, its difficult to see the path forward, and we pray that we can find some order and some way to meet the deep needs that are here all over Port-au-Prince.

(in background, man coordinating queue: "We have to make sure...")

(words spoken in French; Jenkins greets a person receiving aid in French)

I feel good that World Vision is making a difference here, that because of our experience with these types of relief situations and our long partnership with the World Food Programme, we can really do things that probably are saving lives, but certainly are helping with families getting through these circumstances. 

I try to look into the women's eyes and just try to get a sense of what they're going through and its almost unimaginable... certainly unimaginable for me to try to get in behind what they're trying to deal with.

(Jenkins speaks halting French with a pregnant woman while helping carry a bag of food for her)

I would say that joy is not circumstantial, that we have no idea the small things we complain about, the small inconveniences of life, compared to people who have lost everything and have to line up each day to get food and other supplies in order that their children can live.

We need to just wake up each day and thank God.