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STORY: WFP / HAITI HUNGER
TRT: 03:46
SOURCE: WFP
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LANGUAGE: CREOLE / ENGLISH / NATS
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03 APRIL 2024, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
1. Various shots, roadblocks
01 MARCH 2024, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
2. Various shots, people fleeing gang violence carrying the belongings
06 APRIL 2024, CAP HAITIEN, HAITI
3. Various shots, market
4. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Katia Joseph, trader, Cap Haitien market:
“We don’t have enough to send the children to school. Prices vary very quickly; they are out of control. Hunger is growing.”
05 APRIL 2024, CAP HAITIEN, HAITI
5. Various shots, WFP school meals
08 APRIL 2024, LA BELLE ONDE, HAITI
6. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Evenie Joseph, trader:
“The food is very beneficial to the children. Because some children come here without eating at home. School starts early and they are eager to come. It’s very beneficial to the children and the parents too. Sometimes, it’s the only meal they will have in a day. Sometimes, we don’t have enough to give them to eat at home.”
05 APRIL 2024, CAP HAITIEN, HAITI
7. Various shots, WFP school meals
10 APRIL 2024, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Martin Bauer, Country Director, World Food Programme (WFP):
“I'm in Port au Prince where there's been violence since late February. This violence has caused massive displacement. It’s shut down schools. It’s shut down places of work and we're facing a humanitarian crisis here. Right now, WFP is trying to provide food assistance to the displaced population. We've been able to provide 20 and 30,000 hot meals every single day. We’ve provided over a half a million hot meals since the start of this crisis. We are going to need more to be able to continue responding. We are going to need funding from our donors, security, and access.”
20 MARCH 2024, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
9. Various shots, distribution of WFP hot meals to people displaced by fighting
Amidst ongoing violence in Haiti, the World Food Programme (WFP) has rapidly expanded its food assistance, reaching more than half a million people since the start of the current crisis in March this year.
WFP is reaching vulnerable communities with food distributions including hot meals for people living in temporary shelters in conflict-affected Port-au-Prince, cash disbursements and school meals.
Despite efforts to prioritize food purchases from local producers, WFP is concerned that its food stocks risk running out by the end of April.
WFP has only enough food in the country to feed 175,000 people for one month.
The closure of Haiti’s main port and airport in Port-au-Prince about a month ago has disrupted the flow of supplies into the country.
Since 1 March, WFP has provided food to over 500,000 people across the country; 560,000 hot meals were distributed to over 80,000 people in Port-au-Prince and other locations; 290,000 children received hot meals in schools, where WFP has prioritized locally purchased food; 80,000 people in the Grand Anse Department, where emergency levels of food insecurity (IPC4) were recently reported, received cash under WFP’s social protection programme; WFP purchased over 520 metric tons of food from local producers, valued at approximately US$ 1million, enough to feed more than 160,000 school children; WFP has a five-year roadmap to tackle hunger in Haiti, by working with the government to engage local farmers, providing cash transfers that stimulate the local economy and building social safety nets that boost families’ resistance to shocks.
Food prices in Haiti are skyrocketing, driving affordable meals out of reach for millions of families.
According to a WFP market analysis, the price of maize from March 2023 to March 2024 increased by 42 percent, and that of rice by 35 percent.
Violence continues to erode food security. More than two in three households saw significant income drops, and seven in ten departments reported higher food prices than in January.
The first ever IPC acute malnutrition analysis of Haiti found that nearly 277,000 children under 2 are facing or expected to face acute malnutrition by November 2024, including 125,000 children who are severely malnourished.
Food insecurity in Haiti has reached levels not seen since the 2010 earthquake, with half of the population or 5 million people acutely food insecure, according to the March 2024 Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report.
