Two days after returning from Haiti on a brief aid mission, Councilman Fernando Cabrera, his voice hoarse from sickness and exhaustion, described some of the horrific scenes he encountered in days after an earthquake ravaged the area around the Caribbean nation’s capital.

“It was like if you walked down Broadway and every other building or more were completely destroyed,” he said.

“It was horrible,” he said. “I saw dead people. One house was crushed. There was a girl, you could tell she almost made it out because her hand was sticking out.”

Last Monday, Cabrera, his daughter and about a dozen members of the Latin African-American Chaplain Association (LACA), flew a few thousand dollars worth of supplies — antibiotics, bandages, water purification tablets, baby food and more – to the Dominican Republican and then drove the load into Port-au-Prince. Cabrera raised money through donations from his church, New Life Outreach International.

It was just one of several local efforts to help those suffering in the aftermath of the earthquake.

On Monday, local Bronxites and nurse practitioners, Colleen Kelly and Miriam Ford, carrying bags full of medical supplies, headed to Haiti (via the Dominican Republic) to help out at a free clinic in Port-au-Prince.

Their mission is twofold. The primary goal is to provide immediate medical assistance and bring in much needed supplies. Their secondary objective is to set up infrastructure for extended aid efforts at the clinic.

“I’m blessed to have the skills that can be useful in a situation like this,” Kelly said, adding that she’s received overwhelming support from her family, friends and employer.

Much of the monetary support was provided Montefiore Medical Center’s School Health Division, Kelly said.

Montefiore also sent a medical team of its own — Dr. Dominique Jan, the chief of surgery at the Children’s Hospital; Dr. Alexandra Bastien, an anesthesiologist; Lynoid Wallerson, a trauma technician; and operating room nurse Rachael Jones — to join The Surgeons of Hope Foundation in Port-au-Prince. “It is undoubtedly our responsibility to step forward and extend our help and support,” said Montefiore President and CEO Dr. Steven Safyer, in a statement.

The day after the earthquake hit, Miriam Neptune, who moved to Norwood two years ago and is on the board of a Brooklyn-based nonprofit called Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees, found out a distant aunt and uncle had died in the disaster. A couple of days later, she turned her son’s one-year birthday into a makeshift fund-raiser for relief efforts. On Sunday, she decided to join an aid mission and flew to the Dominican Republic on Monday.

Everyone, it seemed, had a few extra dollars to spare. Our Lady of Refuge Church, located in a low-income section of North Fordham, held an impromptu collection for Haiti and raised $5,795.