The Haitian government has asked foreign donors for more tents and tarps, as heavy rains soak squalid, makeshift campsites around Port-au-Prince, NPR correspondent Carrie Kahn reports.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says there are now more than 300 encampments around the city.
Although the rainy season officially begins in April, there have been heavy downpours for the second time this week, leaving homeless encampments muddy, impassable messes. According to Kahn, "many squatters, with nothing more than bedsheets for cover, have had to move in with neighbors."
Government officials and humanitarian groups have struggled to figure out how they can help Haitians left homeless by the earthquake on Jan. 12.
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