Food for the Poor - Haiti Observer Blog

What a parallel!

You give me more food and I will produce more babies

It has been reported that a food distribution program in the town of Savanette is suspected to be the principal reason for an increase in pregnancy among girls and women in the area.

A USAID-funded World Vision food assistance program that started in 2008 until September 2013 in several communities around the town of Savanette has been distributing food to pregnant women and mothers of children from six to 23 months old.

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On Thursday, 26th July, 2012, the village of Anse-a-Veau in Haiti was privileged to be visited by the head of state. President Mitchel Martelly went to visit the victims of January 12, 2010 earthquake. The village has sixty households whose members are the survivors of the earthquake and the floods that came after the quake. Anse-a-Veau is funded under the support of "food for the Poor" program as well as the Catholic Church in the diocese of Anse-a-Veau and Miragoane. These two groups have done great work including building a school in that area to benefit the residents.

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