Haiti Crisis

As WFP continues to stream food assistance and humanitarian aid into quake-stricken Haiti, this page collects a wide range of information and reporting on the operation and provides an overview of the hunger response. 

Operations

  • As WFP moves beyond emergency food assistance to a longer-term food security strategy, the focus will be on investing in Haiti’s human capital.
  • This new strategy includes boosting local agriculture production and supporting local markets across the country as well as providing safety nets for the most vulnerable
  • WFP is implementing programmes with the Government and other partners: cash and food for work projects to support agricultural rehabilitation, local procurement to stimulate the markets, warehousing to support food storage and feeder roads to get products to markets. WFP is also providing nutrition programmes, meals for school aged children and school feeding in food insecure areas.
  • WFP is working closely with the Haitian authorities to prepare for the hurricane season, with measures including the prepositioning of food, trucks and other supplies for the humanitarian community in each district of the country.
  • Despite the world’s generosity, WFP still urgently needs cash contributions for the Emergency Operation in order to implement cash and food for work projects planned in April, as well as support for its logistics work on behalf of the wider humanitarian community.

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On the ground

Mother and Child - Haiti
A mother and child in Haiti at a Gonaives canteen. To help mothers like her, send a Mother's Day eCard from gifts.wfp.org/mothers
 
 
 

Country Background

Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world. Three quarters of Haitians live on less than US$2 per day and 56 percent on less than US$1 per day. Haiti is a food deficit country. It relies heavily on imported food – 48 percent of national consumed food is imported, 47 percent is produced locally while food assistance fills 5 percent of the national needs. Learn More | 10 Haiti hunger facts

 

How to help

  • Make an online donation. Donate
  • Donate $5 to our efforts in Haiti simply by texting the word FRIENDS to this number: 90999.(US only)
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Funding

WFP Earthquake Caseload: 2 million people
 
Time frame: January to December 2010
 
WFP Staff in Haiti: 225
 
Confirmed funding for operations: US$243 million

 

See list of contributions so far

Support from Private Sector

 

WFP is urgently appealing for further commitments by governments, private companies and individuals to support the scale-up and extension of its earthquake response operations in Haiti (See budget revision). Announced contributions to WFP operations amount to US$243 million. Significant in-kind donations of food, equipment and expertise have also been committed.

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Govt donors to Haiti operations

Donors  to  WFP’s operations in Haiti include Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Benin,  Bolivia,  Brazil,  Canada,  China,  Colombia, Denmark,  European Commission,  Finland,  France,  Germany,  Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan,  Luxembourg,  Malawi,  Netherlands,  New  Zealand,  Norway, Poland,  Republic  of  Korea,  Romania,  South  Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand,  United  Kingdom,  and the United States as well as the American  Red  Cross  and  other private sector entities. WFP has also secured funds from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund.