Tuesday, February 02, 2010



Today will be the first day of our food distribution to the rural areas where we work. The majority of food aid at the moment is focussed on urban zones destroyed by the quake, and most of that is staying in Port au Prince. But our technicians did a rapid assessment and we have data that indicates that family sizes are increasing by 40%. This means the average household was between 5-6 members before and now is well 8-9 members. In areas near the border with the DR, household size has almost doubled. Sunday night our credit director and his family worked late into the evening preparing the vouchers which we will be using to help organize the food distribution.

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