One month after his world was shattered, Pierre Jean-Claude stands atop the ruins of what once was his home.
About 100 people lived in the building, not far from the centre of Port-au-Prince. Many of them still lie dead beneath the debris.
Among them are Jean-Claude's two boys, 16 and eight.
"I can't get anything out of the rubble," says Jean-Claude, a thin man who looks much older than his 48 years.
"I'd have to sift through four floors of concrete. I have nothing left. It's impossible."
The number killed by the earthquake is now estimated at between 212,000 to 230,000. No one really knows for certain how many people died. Many are buried in unmarked mass graves.
An estimated 300,000 were injured, the United Nations says.
Doctors and hospitals, which initially were overwhelmed with trauma victims, are now treating more cases of malnutrition and illness caused by unsanitary conditions, like diarrhoea and respiratory infection. Red Cross doctors are vaccinating thousands of children against disease.
There are hundreds of makeshift camps, and a million people living on the streets. Most of the camps remain squalid, unsanitary, and unsafe.
A stadium downtown was once the place where Haiti's most popular soccer teams played. Now, it's another makeshift camp. With the rainy season about two months off, the need for shelter is urgent.
"Only God is watching over us," lamented Natasha Personna, who with her seven children has been living in the stadium for a month. We asked what her family needs most.
"I'm not prepared for the rain," she said. "I have no tent, no shelter, and day by day life is getting worse."
The Haitian government has issued urgent appeals for tents. European countries say they'll ship thousands of them. But according to Ambassador Lewis Lucke, the US official helping to co-ordinate the aid effort, most people will have to make do with plastic sheets.
"We have tens of thousands of rolls of plastic sheeting," Lucke told reporters earlier this week, saying that the plan is to make sure everyone who needs it will have sheeting by May first.
In the past month the international community has provided 1.1 million people with 47 hundred metric tons of rice. Tons of other rations, even some cooked meals, have also been given out.
The frenzied scenes of disorganized food giveaways early on in the crisis have given way to calmer distributions, as agencies have adopted better plans and methods. But some people still say they've received no aid.
Many Haitian are dissatisfied and angry with their government's response to the crisis.
Recovery will take many years. And for Pierre Jean-Claude, the passing of a month has done nothing to ease a father's grief.
"My heart is completely broken. I don't think it will ever heal," he says.
"Sometimes, I dream that I can still walk my kids to school the way I used to ... but I know it will never happen. My heart is broken."
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