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On Sunday, January 31, CARE and other international aid agencies, the Haitian government and the World Food Programme (WFP) embarked on a massive food distribution effort in Haiti intended to reach 1.2 million people over a 15-day period. CARE is responsible for helping 1,700 families each day receive 25 kilograms of uncooked rice in Delmas, one of the 16 distribution sites in the greater Port-au-Prince area. The rice, a stable food in Haiti, is intended to help feed each family for two weeks. By the end of the programme, CARE will have reached almost 120,000 people in desperate need of food.

As  of January 30, CARE had reached more than 50,000 people thus far with the distribution of food, clean water and water purification packets, jerry cans, hygiene kits, mattresses and blankets and the installation of water storage systems. This figure does not include the WFP distributions.

This aid includes:

• High energy biscuits to displaced families in Jérémie, which will provide enough calories per person for four days;
• PUR® water purification packets;
• Hygiene kits, with a special focus on the needs of women (each kit includes: toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, detergent, shampoo, a comb, towels, safety pins, clothes line, sanitary napkins and toilet paper);
• Mattresses were distributed, with priority given to families of pregnant women and women with children;
• Blankets; and
• Delivery kits to pregnant women to help them deliver safer in emergency situations (each kit includes plastic sheeting, gloves, a razor and gauze).

In addition, five water storage bladders were installed in Léogâne and Pétionville, providing potable water to 7,600 people daily through CARE water tanker deliveries.

 

 

To donate for this emergency, please contact your closest CARE International member.