WFP seeks more aid for hurricane-hit Haiti

(Vatican Radio) The World Food Programme is helping to feed thousands of people in Haiti who have lost their homes and livelihoods due to Hurricane Sandy. WFP is urgently appealing for more than $20 million to support more than 425,000 people in the country, particularly the most vulnerable.

“It's an emergency food distribution operation,” explained Spokesperson Elisabeth Byrs This includes special nutritional need of over 100,000 pregnant women and new mothers and also children under five."

The agency says the impact of the hurricane and a recent drought is still being felt in the poor Caribbean country which suffered from an earthquake in 2010.

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