Rapid Response Relief after the effects of the 3 hurricanes that hit Haiti are yet holding the population in danger.

Women carrying perhaps the first food they are able to store at home since three weeks after the disaster

This was the second day of the food distribution implemented by AMURT and AMURTEL in cooperation with the local community leaders and funded by the UN agency Programme Alimentaire Mondial (WFP). 1,300 families are receiving the food daily at the Bigot area, in the devastated city of Gonaives. About 120,000 people will benefit from this program by the end of a two-month emergency response, which in the case of AMURT is coupled with another project for the reinforcement of grassroots organizations through the Food for Work initiative, also in partnership with the UN and the local Ministry of Education.

Coooperative community work to clean the muddy schools and restart the classes

“Travay pou Manje” (Food for Work, in Kreyòl) is a program that encourages the local population to engage in the urgent rehabilitation of their livelihood through community services. 19 schools are being cleaned at the moment through the community leadership support of AMURT, which will enable thousands of children and youth to resume their studies in two weeks. Before AMURT pioneered the start of this program, most of the population already expected to have no possibility of studying in Gonaives until January of 2009!

Please visit the website www.amurthaiti.org to see more information on the relief disaster response and to participate in it.

~ by praneshabrc on September 18, 2008.