, raced into the main room of her home following the tremor . Her parents direct the Maison de Lumiere , but the girls ' home is unstable , so Ariana watches over the little ones at her house . They immediately started screaming . `` When is it going to end ? '' she asked before spending her day coddling some very traumatized children . Daphne , 4 , clung to Ariana , shaking , acting out , sobbing for no good reason . The big quake on January 12 had rattled a cinder block wall in her play yard , crushing her leg , which now has a cherry red cast . The aftershock left her completely undone . All day , staff members of Maison surveyed the damage to their community . A tent city they helped build across from their school had puddles of water sitting in the `` homes . '' Women ran up to the staff asking for food , new tarps and clean water for their children . The same scene unfolded in a nearby ravine whose inhabitants had attended a Sunday morning service at Maison . That day , women from the
Port-au-Prince , Haiti -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- We had not been in Port-au-Prince in a month , not since those horrible days following the earthquake when the city looked like wreckage . The city seemed so upbeat when we arrived Saturday morning on one of the first flights in since commercial airlines resumed service . Musicians wearing Western Union T-shirts greeted us near the hanger that now passes as baggage claim . Next to our hotel , street vendors peddled souvenirs outside a tent city surrounding the presidential palace . But those optimistic signs were eclipsed Sunday night when a torrent of rain poured down on this wounded city where outdoor tent communities have sprouted up in every empty space . Then , just after 4:30 a.m. Monday , an aftershock of magnitude 4.75 shook and shook and finally gave a last forceful jerk before stopping . You could hear the wails on the street , the confused voices of people arguing over whether to stay outside or risk going back in . This one-two punch of natural forces reverberated through the most vulnerable communities . Full coverage of the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti Ariana Manassero , 17