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Survivors Describe Horrific Conditions, Need For Aid
Jaclyn Allen, 7NEWS Reporter
POSTED: 4:37 pm MST January 14, 2010
UPDATED: 5:27 pm MST January 14, 2010
The first day after the earthquake, Dixie Bickel, of Colorado Springs, was in survival mode, but now, she is starting to wear thin.
"Today, we seem to be wanting to find a corner and cry," said Bickel, speaking via web cam from Petionville, a suburb of Port au Prince.
She is the director of the God's Littlest Angels orphanage, and even though everyone there has survived the quake, she described hellish conditions.
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She and other American families are requesting humanitarian visas, so children in the orphanage who are in the process of being adopted by American families can leave.
"They need to be allowed to go home so that we can take in more orphans," she said. "Because we know for every child we send out, there is going to be two to take that bed."
Sen. Mark Udall's office said he has received calls from several Colorado families asking for help in obtaining humanitarian visas for the children they are adopting.
His office said he has reached out to the State Department to find out what he can do to expedite the process.
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