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Community groups spring up in Haiti
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While much of the attention has been focused on international relief efforts, community committees have been springing up all around the earthquake devastated Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince.
Community committees are spontaneous neighborhood groups banding together to share resources.
They are also trying to locate the families of lost children, and tackle security issues.
One such group is taking refuge inside a church courtyard in Martissant, one of Port-au-Prince's most troubled neighborhoods.
Little humanitarian aid has so far reached here, and committee members are pooling and sharing whatever resources and supplies they can get.
Committee member Fritz Jean Baptiste said, "We organize everything together. If I have something, I bring it and share it with the others. We put our food together, and share the meal. Maybe we will all get one bite of food a day."
Cash is hard to come by in Port-au-Prince after the earthquake.
Not only have jobs disappeared but banks and money transfer agencies are closed.
Committee member Jean Anthony said, "Today is the first time I have eaten something in three days, because I don't have any money."
More than 400 families are benefiting from the Martissant committee activities - as international efforts struggle to reach them.
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