Falling thru the cracks

I was contacted by Aude Hulot who works for Alliance Francaise here. She rents a room at Mr. Tulce's who was gracious and generous enough to take in 21 people (three families), mostly children, who were victims of the PaP earthquake. Host families have been promised assistance but none has materialized. Requests were made at some major NGOs (one which received hundreds of million of dollars in US donations through the church) for food assistance but nothing has happened. The large NGOs, by their nature, cannot respond quickly in a crisis so maybe its just a question of time. I hope so. The problem is that the people are hungry now and Mr. Tulce will soon become a secondary victim.
Children who are victims of the earthquake were told by the authorities that they could attend any school free of charge as there was a program to reimburse the schools but three Catholic schools refused to accept them unless they paid a registration fee and had uniforms made and had all their school books. These people have lost everything and to require all this is simply mystifying to me. We can't help with school but we can and will provide food for these people.