Up to 1 million need shelter in Haiti

With 150,000 bodies already in mass graves, international teams, grieving families, sympathetic neighbors and sometimes even strangers were pulling at the rubble with tools or bare hands in countless corners of this devastated city. Thirteen days after the killer earthquake, they were desperate to recover some of the thousands of Port-au-Prince's lost dead–to close each tragic circle, to lay loved ones in the earth to rest in peace. For the living–the homeless spread across empty lots, parks and plazas in the hundreds of thousands–there was little rest as aid agencies struggled to fill their needs for food and water, and to get them tents to shelter their families against the burning tropical sun. "We live like dogs," said Espiegle Amilcar, 34. "We're sleeping, eating and going to the bathroom in the same place." The global agency supplying tents said it already had 10,000 stored in Haiti and at least 30,000 more would be arriving. But, said the International Organization for Migration, "the supply is unlikely to address the extensive shelter needs." The group estimates 100,000 family-sized tents are needed; the U.N. says up to 1 million people need shelter.