"We need shelter dry blanket, food, medicine, and everything”, said Wang Shunfu, the village head Huangcheng Village in Pengzhou area.

As one of the worst-hit area by the earthquake, local rural villagers in the vicinity of Pengzhou are desperate to get help from outside world.

"When the earthquake hit, most of us were in the field, which saved our lives”, aid Wang Shunfu. According to him, among Huangcheng village’s 1,300 villagers, 8 villagers re found dead, with 16 injured and 7 still missing. However, over 90% of the houses have either collapsed or severely damaged. “Most of our villages are now flat out”, he added. Many villagers spent the first a couple of days and nights in great shock, fear, sadness, coldness and darkness under heave rains that lasted a few days after the earthquake.

While the main focus the government is still on the life-saving rescue work in bigger towns, the rural villages are somewhat neglected. To meet the immediate need of the rural villagers, AA China’s emergency team sent hundreds of tilts, food, water, and flashlights to Huangcheng Village and Yonghua Village two days after the earthquake.

"We have lost everything. Everything is buried down there” said Zhou, a woman villager, "we don’t even have a cooking pot and there have been villagers got injured when they tried to pull out stuff from the shattered house.”

Even now, villagers are still terrified. “You should really go to see it. The mountain was literally torn apart, it’s something you can never imagine on your own”, said Zhou Jingfeng, who refer to the massive landslides took places all over the mountain ranges in this area.

With 5 million people become homeless after the earthquake, the country seems to have run of the emergency tents. Yonghua village, where majority of its 2,800 villagers have become homeless, has only receive no more than 10 proper tents from the government.

"We are coordinating with relevant manufacturers to speed up the production”, said a Sichuan provincial official in a press conference. But in the meantime, the rain continues.

"The materials we have now to make the tents are not waterproof. It’s really a miserable”, Luo said.

AA China have allocated 40,000 RMB on tents, and the first tents will only to arrive on May 23, and it won’t cover the need of even one village. To deal with the urgent situation AA relief workers send 3,000 square meter waterproof materials, along with scissors and ropes to the villagers, so that they can make temporary shelter first on their own.

Compared to mountain area further north, where roads were destroyed and communication disrupted and where villagers have to abandon their village, villagers in Cifeng might be considered lucky. They still have their farms. “The wheat harvest will start in a couple days, and hopefully, we can rebuild our village’, said Luo.