Central TX volunteer helping in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (KXAN) - Cedar Park resident Craig Miller is providing aid to a refugee camp outside of Port-au-Prince in Haiti.

Miller made the nine-hour trek back to the Dominican Republic on Monday to replenish supplies for the residents displaced by the earthquake.

The campsite for the displaced, where Miller is supplying aid, is the temporary home for thousands of people in the outlying area of Port-au-Prince, the nation's capital.

"It's basically 3,000 homeless patients up on top of a hill," said Miller over the phone. "They are just trying to get their stuff together and figure out how they are going to rebuild their lives and survive this."

Miller was amazed at the injuries sustained from the earthquake.

"I had one little boy come up to us and his head extremely swollen, disfigured and he had obviously had something fall on him, but we couldn't do anything for him," said Miller. "Another boy...was [about] 2 or 3, and he had a head wound, which we could treat. But he also had a broken arm or shoulder and somebody had just kind of did what they could to tie the arm down."

Miller is working with the organization Thirst No More to provide medical supplies and primary-assistance kits to Haitians in the camps.

He said that clean water and food are among the priorities for the camp, as well as tarps for shelter and medical supplies.

"They're going to get sick from drinking dirty water," said Miller. "There's dead bodies everywhere. Although, a lot of those have been cleaned up, but under the concrete, they are still everywhere. I watched them dig a mass grave and bury a pile of bodies yesterday. I think there's a lot of health risks with everything that's going on there."

Miller was surprised by the power of prayer among the displaced.

"It's like 3,000 people singing and praying at 10 o'clock at night," said Miller. "Then at 5:30 a.m., I wake up to them singing again."