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STORY: HAITI / RECOVERY
TRT: 2.46
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 6 JULY 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI / FILE
FILE - 11 MAY 2010, JACMEL, SOUTH EAST HAITI
1. Various shots, Haitians participating in the ‘Cash and food for work project’ by clearing rubble from the buildings that fell during the 12 January earthquake
2. Wide shot, truck unloading the rubble
3. Med shot, people shovelling debris
6 JULY 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Benoit Thiry, Deputy Country Director, World Food Programme, Haiti:
“We have been trying to restart as soon as possible the job we were doing previous to the earthquake and we start to work with the local administration especially on school feeding on nutrition also on food and cash for work, this big scheme covering the country, developed with the ministry or agriculture.”
FILE - 12 MAY 2010, JACMEL, SOUTH EAST HAITI
5. Various shots, women and men clearing canal to prevent flooding
6. Various shots, beneficiaries of the ‘Cash and food for work project’ collecting their money. (Beneficiaries are paid 200 gourdes ($5) per day, 40% of it in food, rice, beans, oil and 60% cash, which corresponds to a family ration of 5
6 JULY 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Benoit Thiry, Deputy Country Director, WFP, Haiti:
“We are now feeding 1.3 million people and we would like to reach 2 million people through those different programs and the other major challenge is to try to reinforce the governmental structure”.
12 May 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti
8. Various shots, school children in the classroom
9. Various shots, meals been taken to the children in the school yard
10. Various shots, children eating
Six months after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has moved towards supporting long-term recovery, and building a strong nutritional foundation for the future of all Haitians.
In collaboration with the government and NGO partners, WFP has started temporary job initiatives across Haiti. These vary by region but all are designed to contribute to reconstruction efforts and bolster agriculture.
Workers are typically paid with a mix of food and cash. This means that they have money to cover daily expenses such as medicines and clothing, so stimulating the local economy, but also enough food to feed their families.
Some 35,000 women and men are currently employed in WFP food and cash for work programmes which are expected to grow to 140,000 before the end of the year.
“We have been trying to restart as soon as possible the job we were doing previous to the earthquake and we start to work with the local administration especially on school feeding on nutrition also on food and cash for work, this big scheme covering the country, developed with the ministry or agriculture,” said Benoit Thiry, WFP’s Deputy Country Director.
In addition, WFP is working with the Haitian Government to provide daily hot meals to 655,000 school-aged children and aims to reach 800,000 children by the end of the year.
Thiry says that WFP was “now feeding 1.3 million people and we would like to reach 2 million people through those different programs and the other major challenge is to try to reinforce the governmental structure.”
WFP is also providing special nutritional food supplements to pregnant and nursing women and children under 5, reaching more than half a million people in June and thereby ensuring that the most vulnerable groups do not slip into malnutrition during this recovery period.
With the hurricane season underway WFP’s logistics team has prepositioned enough food to feed 1.1 million people across the country for 6 weeks. WFP has also organized a barge service to link Haiti’s main ports to Port-au-Prince and Santo Domingo should roads become impassable due to rain and landslides. This service will be available for the entire humanitarian community.
