Delivery team poses during helicopter food delivery in NW Haiti
A fleet of 8 trucks deliver 50 tons of food for one days distribution
It takes about an hour to offload and count 50 tons of food that will feed 2000 families for two weeks.
UN peace keepers from Peru make sure the distribution is orderly and diciplined
Each family get 5 kilo pulse, 1.7 l oil and 25 kilo rice
Women exit the point of distribution with their 30 kilos of food stock.
Each shipment is verified by the World Food Program and AMURT staff early in the morning before distribution
Recipients get their food coupon the day before. Many opt to stand in line up to six hours before the distribution starts. Once the distribution starts the UN peace keepers keep order.
The General Carlos Alberto Santos Cruz has come to the National School in Bigot, Gonaives, where AMURT/EL is distributing food to the most in-need families at this period of emergency. The Commander of UN soldiers talked with our volunteers about the challenges of the reconstruction operations.
This day 2,000 families were bene(edited)d
The food is distributed though three stations: beans, oil and rice
UN peace keepers from Peru provide essential security for the distribution.
AMURT coordinators give recipient a helping hand in loading the 25 kilo rice sack every family receives
October 2, 2008. This day 2,000 families were benefited. Almost 50 tons of food were distributed
Picture taken: Sept 2008. More and more people come for food. Location: Gonaive, Haiti
Assisting with picking up large food bags
Assessing food distribution program
Women leaving with bags of food
Food awaiting distribution
Haitians leaving the compound with bags of food
People are waiting for the start of the distribution
AMURT and UN soldiers regulating distribution
Bags of food awaiting distribution
A line of more than 1300 people waiting for food
Food distribution in Gonaives
Heaving out mud and debris out of school
One of the schools in the work for food program scheduled for a complete cleanup
Food for work program in schools
Food for work cleanup at a school in Gonaives
Food distribution with the help of Peruvian UN battalion
First food distribution in Gonaives
Second food distribution in Gonaives
First water distribution after hurricane disaster
The food shortage is revealed even just by the desparation with which dock workers fight for each last grain of rice spilled after the loading of the food.
