witnessed frustrated Haitians setting up a barricade on the main road between Jeremie and the airstrip. Several angry young men refused to let vehicles through, claiming aid organizations were shipping humanitarian assistance but not sharing it with residents.
There have been many reports of similar roadblocks affecting aid convoys in other parts of the Tiburon peninsula.
"You have to pass through different places where a lot of the population has been affected very hard by Matthew," explains Massimo Miraglio, an Italian priest who has lived for a decade in Jeremie.
"They will stop the trucks and they will ask to have all the aid," he adds.
But most survivors don't appear to be waiting for help from the outside world.
Local police work alongside volunteers cleaning up debris left by Hurricane Matthew along the waterfront in the town of Jeremie.
In neighborhoods of Jeremie where homes were splintered and shattered, the sound of hammers and saws fill the air as men labor under the tropical sun, rebuilding their homes and shops.
On the town's waterfront, women in floral dresses joined alongside dozens of silver-helmeted police officers, sweeping up debris.
After the most powerful hurricane this country has seen in generations, the grassroots effort to recover and rebuild has already begun.
Today, the family is sleeping in a shelter on the other side of town, their 11-year old daughter sick with a fever she contracted after the storm.
In the meantime, Saint-Plux, who made a living as an English interpreter, is trying to figure out how to scrape together enough money to rebuild the roof of his house and keep his two children in school. It's a challenge facing nearly everyone in this devastated coastal town.
There have been many reports of similar roadblocks affecting aid convoys in other parts of the Tiburon peninsula.
"You have to pass through different places where a lot of the population has been affected very hard by Matthew," explains Massimo Miraglio, an Italian priest who has lived for a decade in Jeremie.
"They will stop the trucks and they will ask to have all the aid," he adds.
But most survivors don't appear to be waiting for help from the outside world.
Local police work alongside volunteers cleaning up debris left by Hurricane Matthew along the waterfront in the town of Jeremie.
In neighborhoods of Jeremie where homes were splintered and shattered, the sound of hammers and saws fill the air as men labor under the tropical sun, rebuilding their homes and shops.
On the town's waterfront, women in floral dresses joined alongside dozens of silver-helmeted police officers, sweeping up debris.
After the most powerful hurricane this country has seen in generations, the grassroots effort to recover and rebuild has already begun.
Today, the family is sleeping in a shelter on the other side of town, their 11-year old daughter sick with a fever she contracted after the storm.
In the meantime, Saint-Plux, who made a living as an English interpreter, is trying to figure out how to scrape together enough money to rebuild the roof of his house and keep his two children in school. It's a challenge facing nearly everyone in this devastated coastal town.
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