Some people, like René Odge

Some people, like René Odge, 29, said they cheap aion gold stretched the ration for more than a week by breaking the biscuits into small pieces.

But it could only do so much. Mr. Odge held up a green soda bottle. “I put salt in the water and it keeps me alive,” he said. “It keeps my stomach calm until I can find something else.”

Many of the mothers in the airfield said they had eaten only a few meals since the earthquake. Oslaurd Lundi, 25, sitting on the ground aion money near her son Benson, 3, and her 6-month-old daughter, Shaina, listed her recent meals as the sun began to set: “Today, nothing; yesterday, a little bread; and a little bread the day before.”

She could see what she wanted. Just a few feet away, Mary-Claudette Alexi, 35, displayed a few pieces of pork and small breaded pies. The aion account prices were relatively low: less than 15 cents for a small pie. But for Ms. Lundi and thousands of others, the price was still too high.

“I don’t sell much of anything,” Ms. Alexi said. “No one can afford it.”