KvN-LaB

Do Gyun Kim

Howard Tinberg

Eng 11

3/7/2010

News Story (First Draft)

Restoring agriculture in Haiti

On January 12, 2010, at 21:53 UTC, (4:53 pm local time) Haiti was struck by a magnitude-7.0 earthquake, the country's most severe earthquake in over 200 years. As result, an estimated three million people were severely affected, Furthermore, an estimated 230,000 people had been identified as dead, an estimated 300,000 injured, and an estimated 1,000,000 homeless according to Haitian Government reports. As best of effort to response to this crisis, World Food Programme and United Nations are already in the ground of Haiti and deployed various section thorough out the regions of Haiti.

As an aftermath of earthquake, Haiti’s entire supply chain infrastructure has been devastated, which resulting many people left without food and water, resulting more people than people who needed medical supply. According to Josette Sheeran who is executive director of World Food Programme, said “Parts of the capital Port-au-Prince look worse than many war zones.” According to Josette Sheeran, this relief operation against Haiti has been most complex relief operation WFP has ever faced. WFP have delivered more than 6 million meals to people in the capital and outlying areas isolated by the earthquake. They currently working around the clock, increasing each day the number of ready-to-eat rations for hungry people (so far 200,000), and distributing other essential items like water purification tablets from other humanitarian partners, according to Pedro Medrano, who is regional director of latin America and the Caribbean in WFP.

Currently they have accomplished many goals such as providing more than 4 million people with their food assistance. Mainly they are trying to respond to the special needs of children and pregnant women. In addition, they have started cooking meals for schoolchildren in Port-au-Prince, and their goal is to reach 72,000 children from 148 schools. Furthermore, the organization of WFP has nearly put 500 staff member on ground, operating around the clock to ensure many people as possible and give the food assistance they needed.