Matt Damon was not afraid to get his hands dirty and even got stuck in the mud during a trip to the Caribbean nation of Haiti, where he helped distribute food in a town devastated by Hurricane Ike, the Associated Press reports.

Damon arrived this weekend with Haitian-born singer Wyclef Jean to hand out rice, beans and cooking oil in Cabaret, a town where 60 people died in flash floods when Ike hit the area last week.

Things got rough for the stars when their truck carrying 300 bags of food ran into a ditch, forcing the rest of the caravan to stop. But they kept their cool as they continued their mission in the disaster region, the AP said.

The celebrities later walked to a nearby church where about 600 people were sheltered, kneeling down to talk to an emaciated, elderly man lying on the muddy floor before serving food.

Damon and Jean encouraged more people to help the United Nations raise more than $100 million for an estimated 800,000 Haitians in need of aid after four devastating tropical storms and hurricanes since mid-August.

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