Port-au-Prince , Haiti ( CNN ) -- The nearly 100 children living at an orphanage in Carrefour , Haiti , are hungry and thirsty , and desperately waiting for aid , a member of the orphan 's foundation told CNN on Saturday . All of the buildings of the Good Shepherd Orphanage , about eight miles from the capital of Port-au-Prince , were `` damaged beyond repair , '' including the dormitories , said David Zimmer , treasurer for the Good Shepherd Orphanage and Schools Foundation . Zimmer spoke to CNN from Hebron , Kentucky , but said he has been in communication with the head of the orphanage , Pastor Ernst Cassy , who has worked in Carrefour for 40 years . He has also received messages via e-mail from staff in Carrefour , Zimmer said . The news he and his wife have received is heart-wrenching : The roads are impassable , Cassy has run out of food and the well they used to collect drinking water was damaged in Tuesday 's 7.0-magnitude quake . Get the latest developments in Haiti . About 40,000 homeless people have sought refuge in the streets . The electricity is out and so is the gas that powered the generators . On the night of the quake , moans and screams pierced the dark . `` If they do n't get food and water there will be unrest like you ca n't believe , '' Zimmer said . The Good Shepherd Orphanage is just one of several crippled recently . Reports of pancaked orphanages stretch from Port-au-Prince to the southern coastal town of Jacmel . Are you in Haiti and safe ? Share your photos . In the capital on Friday , chaos broke out at the Maison De Lumiere Orphanage after severe shortages of food , water and medicine sparked an outcry , said Mike Maiolo , senior pastor of the volunteers ' home church in Mission Viejo , California . The building sustained heavy damage but no one was killed , he said . Many children who had parents on Tuesday morning , were orphans by that night . A doctor told CNN 's Elizabeth Cohen on Friday that the number of orphans had tripled after the quake . Zimmer said he plans to fly into Port-au-Prince on Tuesday . View or add to CNN 's database of missing persons in Haiti . CNN 's Khadijah Rentas and Stan Wilson contributed to this report .
Some 100 children at orphanage in Carrefour awaiting aid . Orphans have no food , water well damaged . Other orphanages crippled . The UN has called for a humanitarian pause to allow the delivery of aid.