Created: 1/25/2010 6:24:16 PM 
Columbia, SC (WLTX) -- A local organization that's been helping Haiti's children and elderly for years is now turning their efforts to disaster relief.
Millions of Haitians who were left with nothing but injuries are being moved out of Port-au-Prince. Wade McGuinn's aid group, Haiti Children's Project, has seen the destruction firsthand.
"The story of the earthquake is the buildings falling down, but the real story is what do you do with the 2 million, 2.5 million people that are going to be absorbed back into the countryside and need help," McGuinn says. "They, right now, every day since last week, have been ferrying all those people by small ferry boats all over the rest of the island and dropping them off with nothing. Just on Monday and Wednesday left 16,000 people at the dock. Most of them were injured and they left them with water and they drove off they have no homes. They have no money. They have no food. They have nothing."
McGuinn is the founding director of Haiti Children's Project, a group that has helped Haitian children and the elderly for years. Now they're providing food and medical care to anyone they can reach.
"We were able to unload the rice and beans that we brought we brought 1,300 pounds of rice and beans and actually see that food go directly into pots of boiling water and see people start eating," McGuinn says. The group is taking four more relief trips this week, bringing in supplies and medical care.
"The grass field that we land at that's adjacent to our project, which is where the plane lands, there was over two maybe 300 people just camping there now," he says. They are living proof that the need for help is dire.
"I've cried a bucket of tears, I mean, but you know I tell people every day my heart is broken. But my spirit's not broken. So, it's up to us to continue the lifeline, and that's what we're going to do," McGuinn says.
To help their effort, visit their website: http://www.haitichildrenproject.org/
