The queue stretches back as far as the eye can see.
Sick with hunger, people hurry to the gate, desperate to get their hands on a few biscuits.
And when there's nothing left to give out...
AMBIENCE
(title) Move yourselves, stand back please
... UN peacekeepers struggle to contain the crowd.
Some manage to break through...
... only to find boxes...
... all of them agonisingly empty.
SOT Alejandro CHICHERI
"We have to understand that the situation is very difficult. The country's in ruins, the town's been destroyed and all the roads are unpassable."
Facing a shortage of food and supplies - some are deciding to leave their battered homeland altogether.
Thousands head to the border - hoping to flee to the neighbouring Dominican Republic.
Immigration controls are in place - only ambulances and a rare few are allowed to pass.
SOT Dominican immigration officer
"If they have the right documents, they cross, if not then they have to stay... unless they're injured, then they get the necessary help. We're worried about a mass influx, that's why we're being so strict."
And when travelling by land fails, there's still the sea to escape the disaster.
It's a sign of their desperation - these sailors of fortune don't really know where they're going or where they'll end up.
The American coastguard says it's now fearing a rush of illegal immigrants.