The school’s two stories empty quickly. The children line up under a tarpaulin, in front of several big pots filled with rice and bean sauce, a staple of Haitian cooking. (Copyright: WFP/Stephanie Tremblay)
Haiti: “When the Bell Rings, It’s Like a Traffic Jam”
In Haiti, the World Food Programme provides meals daily to 685,000 children in the country’s schools. The meals help children learn better and encourages them to come to school everyday. In La Saline, like in many other places in Haiti, the school meals programme also provides the guarantee that children get at least a meal a day.
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Country at a glance 2012
| Planned Beneficiaries | 1,125,686 |
| Beneficiary needs (mt) | 15,251 |
| Beneficiary needs ($US) | 20,877,978 |
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