As plans to relocate many thousands of Haitian refugees get under way, Jon Snow has been out on the streets of Port-au-Prince where the first signs of normal life are returning.
Haiti’s government plans to move homeless survivors of last week’s earthquake to new villages being created outside the wrecked capital.
Interior minister Paul Antoine Bien-Aime has confirmed 400,000 refugees, currently living in makeshift shelters, will be relocated to “tent villages” near the town of Croix Des Bouquets.
Mr Bien-Aime told reporters the operation would start as soon as possible.
The mass relocation should bring some relief to the hundreds of thousands of people living in dirty and dangerous conditions.
Many survivors have used mattresses to mark out open-air living areas on blocked-off roads and grassy areas between dead zones of earthquake rubble in Port-au-Prince.
They have also built crude tents by tying bed sheets to trees.
The majority have been sleeping outdoors, because their homes were destroyed or because they fear aftershocks will bring down more buildings.
Overcrowding in parks has pushed sanitation and hygiene to breaking point.
The city’s water system is only partially working. Tanker trucks are delivering water to camps.
At the Champs de Mars, a once elegant park near the palace, one man living in a tent said: “It’s miserable here. It’s dirty and it’s boring. People go to the toilet everywhere here and I’m scared of getting sick.”
Aid group Action Against Hunger has installed some water distribution points where people crowd round with buckets, but emergency toilets have yet to be installed.
Medical supplies are now getting through to doctors on the ground, including nine inflatable hospitals being installed by Médecins Sans Frontières.
The main seaport, damaged in the 7.0 magnitude earthquake on 12 January, has reopened for limited aid shipments.
Lieutenant Commander Mark Gibbs, from the US Coast Guard said: “We’re are on our third vessel and the structural engineers have okayed this operation we are doing.”
Meanwhile, a United Nations peacekeeper who was trapped under rubble for five days without food and water, has described how he saved his urine in case he had to drink it.
Jens Kristensen, from the Danish UN group, is frail, suffering chronic dehydration, but alive. He has spent the last few days recovering in hospital before speaking of his ordeal.