MIAMI (AP) — Haiti's poverty and hardship has long drawn aid groups and charities trying to ease the country's pain.
But many of the same aid workers are in dire conditions themselves after Tuesday's devastating earthquake.
The head of the Catholic Church in Haiti is dead in the rubble. Twenty-two U.N. workers are killed and scores more are missing or trapped.
Missionaries, students, doctors and others are missing or unable to contact their loved ones and organizations back home.
Their struggles make it that much more difficult to help the Haitian people.
One Catholic priest based on the island, the Rev. Duken Augustin, says the quake has brought "new needs, new sufferings, new ... hunger, new despair, new devastation."
