Matt Damon and former Fugee member Wyclef Jean spent the weekend in Haiti, handing out food in an area ravaged by recent hurricanes.
The two spent Saturday giving out bags of rice and beans and distributed cooking oil to hundreds near the town of Cabaret. When the truck they were driving got stuck in a ditch, they simply passed the supplies out on the side of the road.
Through Wyclef's Yele Haiti charity and other organizations, he and Matt were able to give food to 3,000 families in need.
The situation - cities under water, families living on the roofs of their homes, people starving with no access to roads - hit both Matt and Wyclef heard. "I'm speechless, I can't believe it," Matt said, while Wyclef called it inhumane.
"No human should be living like this," he said.
Though Wyclef, a Hatian native, was immediately recognized, Matt was not, and he wasn't bothered by that in the least. "It's nice, it's really easy to move through a crowd like this," Damon told an Associated Press reporter who was on hand.
Later on that day, Wyclef and Matt served rice with vegetable sauce at a church-turned-shelter to some 600 Hatians who were left homeless by hurricane Ike. The pair are hoping their actions will spur donations for Haiti, a country that has been devastated by four major storms this month.
"Hopefully we can make enough noise that people will pay attention," Damon said. "I truly believe in the people in my country."
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