for the moment , under dark clouds . iReport : Looking for loved ones in Haiti `` You can see the people are not satisfied , '' Sainvil says . `` But they are thankful . '' CARE spokesman Rick Perera says the humanitarian agency delivered a water buffalo to this settlement , about 20 miles west of Port-au-Prince , but nothing else arrived until the mattresses on Sunday . The agency plans to supply more relief items , but distribution has been a huge problem , Perera said . It has been difficult finding enough trucks to carry the goods . In outlying areas like this , the biggest fear is people will be forgotten . Sainvil says aid agencies have visited the city center , but few have received help in the townships and villages of Leogane province , lined with sugarcane groves , banana trees and now , mangled chunks of concrete that used to be homes , offices , schools and clinics . Twelve days after a magnitude-7 .0 earthquake , the focus in Haiti has shifted from extracting survivors from heaps of rubble to helping those who survived . By some estimates , 1.5 million
Leogane , Haiti -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- In a dirt field 20 minutes outside of Leogane 's city center , desperation surfaces in the form of fear , anger , thanks . All at once . Relief trucks from CARE International have arrived , and the waiting wall of people pounces on the aid workers . The residents clutch paper tickets given out earlier to collect the goods : one mattress and blanket per family . CARE begins to distribute 250 of each , but the makeshift settlement here holds as many as 10,000 earthquake victims . Guards wearing gray polo shirts with the word `` securite '' painted on their backs roam the grounds with metal baseball bats in hand . They anticipate chaos . `` We are happy for the mattresses . We are thankful , '' says Willio Sainvil , a spokesman for a community organization helping organize the flow of aid . `` But what we need is water . We need food . We have people who are sick . They need medicine , '' he says . `` We need tents , especially if it rains . '' Above the sun is hiding ,