A small community of Indians based in quake-ravaged Haiti has appealed to the government back home to provide them financial assistance to rebuild their lives. These people not only lost their homes and cars but also the money they had in the banks in the worst ever tremor to hit the tiny Caribbean nation that claimed an estimated two lakh lives. The community had presented Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Shashi Tharoor, with a written demand for compensation when he visited Port-au-Prince two weeks after the earthquake. Referring to a visit by the officials of the Indian embassy in Cuba, the honorary consul for the Indian government Eddy Handal said, the officials promised much but nothing has happened. Mr Tharoor said he was deeply sympathetic about the Indians in Haiti but the purpose of his visit had a broader mandate of expressing solidarity with Haitians, grieving the loss of UNpersonnel and boosting the morale of Indian peacekeepers engaged in relief work in the aftermath of the quake. Handal, a Haitian businessman noted that while Indian government had provided five million dollars for relief efforts, it had not extended any monetary help to its own citizens.