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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. —

As so many people scrambled to leave Haiti, a Port St. Lucie man fought to get himself back in.

Meschac St Amour is a native Haitian who now lives on the Treasure Coast.

He is the president of a Port St. Lucie organization called Habitat for Children Ministries, which serves children in Haiti.

Port St Lucie nonprofit struggling to get supplies to children in Haiti

St Amour was able to get a missionary flight to Haiti on Tuesday, expecting the worst when he landed.

He said he still wasn’t prepared for what he found.

“It’s much worse than what I was thinking,” he said.

St Amour brought with him supplies for the country, including 1,500 pounds of food.

He is carefully giving it away where it’s most needed, though he had planned to share it with everyone.

“It can’t work like that. That’s what we were hoping,” St Amour said. “But it can’t work like that. Because right now, you’re going to start something you can’t finish.”

St Amour said his village is far away from the Haitian capital of Port au Prince.

That’s where the majority of the violence has been over the last several weeks.

St Amour said there’s no violence where he is, but they are still suffering.

“A shortage of food, gas,” he said. “Anything you can think of to feed a family.”

St Amour said most people are unable to find medicine or medical care.

These shortages are why he left the Treasure Coast to return to Haiti.

He said he wants to help however he can until Haiti can once again recover.

“Haiti is not going to die,” he said. “There’s some that are going to believe in it, and some that are not going to believe. But I believe one day, Haiti is going to come back.”

St Amour is asking those who want to help to do so through his organization’s website.