Aid official calls for food funds
The World Food Program lacks funds to help feed Haiti’s poor, and international donors must provide urgent and massive aid, a spokesman for the United Nations agency said.
“The situation is particularly serious because 56% of the Haitian population was already living with less than $1 a day,” said the WFP regional public information officer, Alejandro Lopez.
He said the agency had a $37.8-million shortfall in the $45-million budget anticipated for this year in the Caribbean nation, where recent food riots killed six people.
The program aims to feed 1.7 million Haitians, but the number needing help to cope with the current food crisis could climb close to 5 million.
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