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Haiti aid hard to come by one month after hurricane

LES CAYES, Haiti, Nov 5, (APP/AFP) – Uprooted trees still litter fields and beaches in southern Haiti, as if Hurricane Matthew left its trail of death and destruction only yesterday. Except for blue plastic tarps that now cover damaged homes, the scene one month after the storm is practically identical to the days immediately following Matthew’s devastating October 4 landfall. Among the felled coconut trees, a single plastic tarp offers little protection from the elements for Jean Robert Sima and his 92-year-old father, who rests on a mattress. “A man I had done some work for, is letting us use his house