In an effort to boost aid to quake-ravaged Haiti, the World Food Program began on Feb. 22 to provide cooked meals to school children in the nation’s captial, Voice of America reports. The agency also recently started a special rice distribution program, which will be extended for another week to reach earthquake survivors in some of Port-au-Prince’s most densely populated areas.
“What we are going to be doing is scaling up to provide a fuller food basket - rice, beans, cooking oil, corn soy blend, which is a high nutrient fortified food, and cooking oil - to about 1.5 million people in Port-au-Prince starting in early March,” WFP spokeswoman Emilia Cassela said. “That will be focused on the people who are most vulnerable - those people who are still in particular need of food assistance.”
