A United Nations tally showed aid groups had distributed some 20,000 mats to Haiti earthquake survivors on a recent day -- but more than 35 times as many sat in a warehouse.
Some 32,000 tarps had been delivered by last Sunday, but 104,132 more sat in storage while tens of thousands of quake victims strung up sheets to create makeshift housing.
Even now, as the pace of aid distribution quickens and warehouses clear out, hundreds of thousands of gallons of water still sit at a U.N. depot.
Despite daily progress reports of a country slowly on the mend, aid organizations and the international community that rushed into Haiti after the massive earthquake are now grappling with the harsh reality of just how daunting the task is ahead of them.
A month after the 7.0 magnitude earthquake flattened parts of the city, leaving some 230,000 dead and paralyzing much of the country's leadership, pieces of good news are sometimes blunted by reports of frustrating challenges.
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