We thought everyone forgot about us. You are the first person we've seen since it happened. Most homes, including Mahano's, are reduced to mounds of rubble. CARE staffer Roberto Garcia visits the remains of Miguel Angel Garcia's home. As other people see the truck, they walk towards it.
Some people run.
As a second CARE truck drives up, Garcia speaks to the community about how the distribution of food will be organized, and explains that every family will receive a five-day ration of food. As sacks of rice and beans, boxes of sardines, bags of flour for tortillas and plastic containers of cooking oil are unloaded, a line forms and Garcia takes a seat at a mud-stained wooden table. He begins reading out the names on the list. Everyone is there. The food is distributed.