A cash and food for work project launched a few months after the earthquake jointly between WFP and the Food And Agriculture Organization (FAO) is now providing Vanise Jean Pierre and the rest of the community with job opportunities it never had before.  In the short term, the project ensures the livelihood for hundreds of families through the creation of new jobs. In the longer term, it helps community become self-sufficient through the creation of more sustainable agriculture

Photos courtesy of Anne Poulsen

This month, Haitian children have returned to school.  WFP and the National School Feeding Programme will provide hot meals to almost one million of them.

WFP food distribution in Haiti, 8 days after the earthquake

WFP rations to Haiti.

“water would be snaking through more than 60 acres of fields bringing the promise of abundant crops to about 150 farmers. And instead of just one harvest a year, some farmers said they would be able to coax three from their fields now that they’ll have a reliable source of water.”

Close to half a million people in Port-au-Prince were homeless and makeshift camps began to form. WFP distributed MREs (meals ready to eat) to those with no cooking facilities in the city. Meals were also delivered to other quake areas, Leogane and Jacmel.

A cutiepie flaunts her schoolwork!

As schools across Haiti reopened, WFP resumed its school meals programme, led by the Government of Haiti, with the aim to provide 800,000 children across the country with a warm, nutritious meal once a day.

At least 1.5 million people in Haiti remain stuck in temporary camps, the United Nations said Monday, six months after a devastating earthquake hit the impoverished nation. (..) We have moved to supporting the rebuilding of the country,’ said World Food Programme spokeswoman Emilia Casella. ‘This is the time now, when we will be able to build a better Haiti for all the people there,’ Casella told reporters in Geneva .

Schoolgirls in Haiti eat a meal provided by the WFP in April 2010.