"We will not, the World Food Program, will not just bring our supplies into an airport and dump it and take off, and that's one reason why there is a hold up now," Anthony Banbury, the WFP regional director, told The Associated Press. "Because we are going to bring in not just supplies but a lot of capacity to go with them to make sure the supplies get to the people who need them."
As of right now, those supplies are nowhere near the people who need them.
A farmer who refused to give his name showed an ABC News producer his house. It was flattened, but he still lives there. He had nowhere else to go.
"It will take him at least two years to work to try and rebuild," Thiwari said. He earns only $2 a day and "nobody has asked him what he needs."
Teddy Din told the Adventist Development and Relief Agency International that he returned to the town of Piensalu, where he rode out the storm and believes that of 150,000 villagers, up to 50,000 might be dead. The village, he said, is struggling under horrific conditions.
"During the last days they ate and drank coconut juice to survive -- which saved them. At most places there is no drinking water, everything salty. There are many coconut trees around. Found some rice and shared among all. People start picking up floating stuff. Immediate after the cyclone ate fresh flesh from dead animals [cows, buffalos], but now they can't eat them anymore."
The woman who spoke with the Democratic Voice of Burma said she survived, but that her daughter-in-law didn't.
"My pregnant daughter-in-law fell into the water and since then disappeared," she said. "We searched, but we did not find her. There are many dead bodies. How can we easily distinguish who is who?"
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