Jeanne Huo, one of about 100 people gathered around a glass display case of a woman and her daughter, who died in one of dozens of earthquakes that have struck the area this year, in Cuiabá, Guatemala, on March 20, 2016. The earthquakes in the southern Plains of America have left at least 30 towns, cities and mountains in danger of collapsing or losing their entire terrain, according to the United Nations. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez)

WASHINGTON (AP) — About 100 people are at a home in the Guatemalan capital of La Coruña near a huge glass case filled with their daughter’s bones, some of them wearing white plastic skullcaps. They know her as “Sister” because it was she, together with her brothers and her husband, who rescued them from the rubble of collapsed construction and killed their father in the quake.

The skeletons are among thousands of bones scattered across thousands of acres of Guatemala, a country plagued by a string of earthquakes that killed nearly 200 people and left dozens more missing. The country has been under several warnings by the United States to take action, but each time the government has failed to act.

“We have come here to ask for help,” said one of the skeleton givers, a woman named Jezebel Garcia. The first of “Sister” and her son arrived in the United States in late 2016 on temporary visas. But her husband and son later died in the earthquakes.

“I want help to fix our house. My husband is dead or at death’s door because of the quake,” Garcia said.

Since the 2011 earthquake, when they were sent to the United States, Garcia and her family have been forced to abandon their small apartment, but they said they never lost hope that government and community assistance could help.

Now, one year later, Garcia said they are desperate. They are on the verge of losing everything they have.

“I don’t have anybody,” she said. “I’m alone. We’re at the risk of losing everything.”

The earthquake killed at least 200 people and destroyed hundreds of buildings around Central America. In the towns along the tectonic fault that runs through the region, thousands of people have been displaced — in some cases for generations.

“Most people are in survival mode,” said Daniella Perez-Rodriguez, a Guatemalan disaster specialist with the U.N.