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About 200 residents, many of them teenagers or children, trekked up a dirt path to a clearing and formed in two lines to receive their plastic bags of milk, sugar, soap, rice, beans and other rewards.

He added toilet cleaner to the nurses’ tea and sugar soap to the sugar bowl but fortunately no one touched either.

Maria Presinal was part of a group of four women from Holyrood who drew up a list of food and household items to buy: cereal, milk, sugar, soap, towels, toilet paper.

The boy's family also received two cows, flour, onions, rice, salt, sugar, soap and oil, according to the Associated Press news agency.

“Dear Judy, my pockets were stuffed with the necessaries of life—tea, sugar, soap, sometimes even bits of meat; they called it biltong, but it was really nothing more or less than dried meat.”