Hurricane Matthew: Red Cross reaches hardest-hit communities in southern Haiti

Jocelin Lima, 25, after picking up a kitchen kit at a Red Cross distribution site in Abacou, Haiti (Photo: Maria Santto, IFRC)

Over the past few days, teams of volunteers from the Haiti Red Cross have been distributing essential goods to some of the most affected areas by Hurricane Matthew. These photos show recent distributions in the southern coastal area of Les Cayes, where Red Cross teams have provided the local population with much-needed relief items including emergency shelter kits, kitchen sets and hygiene kits.

People register at a Red Cross distribution site in Arniquet, southwestern Haiti (Photo: Maria Santto / IFRC).

People queue for registration at the hygiene kit distribution site in Abacou, southern Haiti (Photo: Maria Santto / IFRC)

Cadelus Ismail, a Red Cross volunteer from Arniquet, southwestern Haiti, hands a jerrycan to a member of the local community (Photo: Maria Santto, IFRC)

Sisters Edlana Jounal (left), 75, and Anjelica Jounal (middle), 63, and their friend Leday Ferrand (right), 72, after picking up their kitchen kits and jerrycans and a Red Cross distribution site in Abacou, Haiti. The three ladies have lost everything to Hurricane Matthew. “We have no roof, nothing” said the teary-eyed Anjelica. They are all neighbours and now reside, like so many others, at another neighbour’s dwelling (Photo: Maria Santto / IFRC).

Volunteers at a Red Cross warehouse in the early morning hours, setting up for the distribution of shelter toolkits in Antoine and St Jean du Sud, Les Cayes (Photo: Maria Santto / IFRC)

Red Cross volunteers loading hygiene kits for distribution at Abacou, southern Haiti (Photo: Maria Santto / IFRC)

A young girl carrying a parcel at a Red Cross relief distribution site, in Abacou, Haiti (Photo: Maria Santto / IFRC)