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Taking to the sea to deliver aid in Haiti

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Captain Madeleine Habib is a shipping officer working for the World Food Programme in Haiti [WFP Haiti/Theresa Piorr]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI – With Haiti’s highways increasingly in the grip of gangs, aid delivery by ship is becoming increasingly critical. Captain Madeleine Habib, a shipping officer working for the World Food Programme in Haiti, spoke about her experiences ahead of World Humanitarian Day, which is marked annually on 19 August.

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“I manage the organization’s coastal shipping service to ensure the safe transit of essential humanitarian goods and assets to the northern and southern parts of the country. A maritime alternative is increasingly critical as gang control over the highways out of the capital continues to grow. This means that the Haitian population and humanitarian actors have limited freedom of movement in and out of the capital.

The situation has a huge impact on the population’s income and on the implementation of humanitarian and development projects that should support the community.

This is especially true for the population of the southern peninsula of the country which is still suffering from the devastating impact of the August 2021 earthquake.

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One year after the disaster, I recognize that thousands of people, especially in the south, are still struggling to recover and are unable to rebuild their lives because the growing insecurity in Port-au-Prince has shattered their economic prospects. Farmers in the rural south are unable to get their produce to markets so their livelihoods are suffering.

It takes a village and supply chain is an essential part of that village. We might not be on the frontline, but our network of trucks, ships and planes keeps essential humanitarian aid moving towards our beneficiaries.

Our team continues to ensure the transportation of humanitarian aid to these vulnerable populations.”

WFP in Haiti

  • WFP school feeding programme is considered to be the largest food safety net in the country. Every school day, WFP delivers hot meals to close to 300,000 children each day across more than 1,000 schools, mainly public, throughout the country.
  • WFP buys locally an average of 800 metric ton of food annually for the Programme, supporting national agriculture in line with the Government’s rural development priorities.
  • WFP is currently providing emergency food assistance to more than 150,000 people who have been affected by a prolonged drought and the deterioration of the economic situation since 2018.
  • To help mitigate the impact of future disasters, WFP works to ensure that stocks of emergency food are on standby in the right locations before the start of the hurricane season, which runs from June to November each year.

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