Fatima Gran Petion, a mother of six, lives on an open ground and sleeps together with hundreds of families. Her youngest baby Leyla, two months old, had already experienced a bitter and miserable life.

Fatima is just one of the large number of people still living in temporary shelter in the avenue Delma 33 in the Dominican border town Jimani, fearing they might be abandoned two months after the massive 7.3-magnitude earthquake on Jan. 12 that killed more than 200,000 people and left 1.2 million more homeless.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the UN special envoy, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, have appealed to the world for 1.44 billion U.S. dollars to render humanitarian and early recovery assistance to the quake-hit Haiti.

Despite humanitarian aid from all over the world, more than 1 million Haitians still find it hard to meet their basic needs.

Starvation, apathy and the lack of money have frustrated the Haitians and plunged them deeper into fear and despair. However, the channel to get aid to the Haitians is not working smoothly. Jimani, an important path to Haiti, is becoming a bottleneck.

After the two months' reconstruction, businesses in Jimani, located eight kilometers from the border with Haiti, were only recovering slowly.

On Wednesday, though it was not a market day, long lines of trucks and busses with commodities to Haiti waited several hours for the border to be opened.

Meanwhile, a public health brigade is checking and vaccinating those people who wanted to enter Haiti, in order to avoid the outbreak of epidemic.

Now, the situation at the border was tense as armed troops guarded the checkpoints to prevent people from entering Haiti or the Dominican Republic without proper documents.

Only some non-governmental organizations had the special permits to use the express way to enter Haiti.