WFP helps tackle Haiti food insecurity
(9 Aug 2022)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY
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Jean-Rabel - 4 August 2022
1. People waiting in line for food donations behind a fence
HEADLINE: WFP helps tackle Haiti food insecurity
ANNOTATION: The Word Food Programme says more than a million Haitians
risk falling into famine.
2. Line of people moving
3. Men collecting sacks of rice from truck
4. Close of feet of people in line
5. Mid of people waiting
ANNOTATION: In Jean-Rabel, people walk for hours to join the line for food donations.
6. Marie Gracie Joseph (wearing white top) picking up can of beans
7. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Marie Gracie Joseph, farmer:
"We did not have any money, and we had to go to someone else's house to borrow it. With this food, we don't need to borrow. We suffered from hunger, and this food will help."
8. Various of people loading sacks of food on donkeys
ANNOTATION: Gang violence has made it very difficult for donations to reach those who depend on them.
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Gonaives - 3 August 2022
9. World Food Programme warehouse with piles of sacks of rice
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean Martin Bauer, director of the World Food Programme in Haiti:
"Gangs control large areas of Port-au-Prince, and they control the exits of Port-au-Prince through Martissant, the road leading east to the Dominican Republic and the road leading north to Gonaives and Au Cap (Cap-Haïtien). This is causing problems with food markets, with livelihoods and with food security."
11. People queuing to receive food donations
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Jean-Rabel - 4 August 2022
12. Various of people walking away, some pulling donkeys loaded with food donations
ANNOTATION: These factors, plus the unravelling of the political situation since the assassination of former president Jovenel Moise in 2021 and the increased violence in the capital, put Haiti close to the top of the list of food insecurity.
STORYLINE:
More than one million people are at risk of falling into famine in Haiti according to the World Food Programme, as the UN agency's donations brought respite to a drought-stricken town in the country's northwest.
In Jean-Rabel, farmer Marie Gracie Joseph says the supplies including rice, beans and cooking oil will help to support her family after the steady searing heat destroyed her crops.
"Sometimes we did not have any money and we had to go to someone else's house to borrow it. With this food we don't need to borrow," she said.
For Marie Grace it was an hour, but some from the community surrounding Jean-Rabel walked for five hours to collect their share of the donations.
According to the WFP, 1.3 million Haitians are under food emergency, a situation made worse by the widespread violence in Port-au-Prince where gangs have taken control of large parts of the capital.
Gang violence has made it impossible for donations to reach parts of the capital itself and parts of the country that have come to depend on those donations, explained Jean Martin Bauer, the director of the WFP in Haiti.
Traders have had to obtain supplies from other regions of the country or resort to imported products to ensure the availability of basic foodstuffs that most can't afford to buy.
According to the WFP, households have large food consumption deficits reflected in very high acute malnutrition and excess mortality.
For years Haiti has suffered with environmental problems as well as exposure to natural disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes of which Haiti had too many in the last decade.
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