Tens of thousands of Haitians gathered in Port-au-Prince on Friday for a national day of mourning held one month after the devastating earthquake killed at least 200,000 and left over a million people homeless. Haitian President René Préval asked Haitians to “dry their eyes” and rebuild their shattered country.

René Préval: “Some pain can’t be described in words. The only answer for all of that pain has been to look for some help, until now. Above all, outside. The pain is so heavy. Today we, the Haitian people, have to mourn our dead with dignity.”

During a trip to Haiti, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes said the two top priorities for Haiti are now shelter and sanitation.

John Holmes: “Sanitation is a huge issue, complicated, as is shelter, by the number of sites that are there, the fluctuating populations in those sites, the need to move people from one site to another, in some cases, because where they are is not going to be sustainable in the rainy season. But this is a major challenge. We need to construct something like 25,000 latrines of one sort of another, whether they be dug latrines, trench latrines or portable latrines. I don’t want to go into too much detail, but that’s the issue. In fact, there, we’re still probably not more than five or ten percent of the way there, so there’s a huge challenge there, too.”