What is the status of child feeding programs in Haiti like school feeding?
School feeding programs in Haiti provide over 500,000 children with a balanced meal consisting of rice, beans, oil, fish and some condiments. Many children in Haiti walk 2-3 hours everyday to get to school. There is no doubt among Haitians of the social, economic, and physical importance these meals provide children. Government authorities have progressively begun to take over school feeding but they cannot sustain it yet. If WFP in Haiti does not receive more funding, the school feeding program will have to be stopped in March 2010. What role can Food for Work projects play in making Haiti become self sufficient? Almost the entire country of Haiti has been deforested which has led to widespread land degradation and agricultural vulnerability. Farmers, who are mostly women, have not been able to participate in traditional best management practices like terracing the land to prevent mudslides and water runoff. Instead, farmers spend all of their time cultivating and transporting crops t
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