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Floods that devastated Haiti
and killed hundreds threaten to trigger a health crisis and
fresh outbreaks of food riots in the impoverished Caribbean
country, government officials and aid workers say.
"There is a need for almost everything
right now," said Oxfam program director Charlie Rowley.
"It's food, very clearly. The hygiene situation is appalling.
There is enormous overcrowding in the shelters," he said.
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HAITI STATISTICS:
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Haiti |
U.S.A |
Average Annual Income
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$1,800 |
$43,500 |
Life Expectancy |
53 years |
78 years |
Poverty Rate |
80.0% |
13% |
Literacy Rate |
52.9% |
99% |
Infant Mortality Rate
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72 deaths/1,000
births |
6.3 deaths/1,000
births |
Malnourished
Children Under 5 |
greater than
33% |
less than 1%
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Permission requested to use information from www.wehaitians.com
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1 of 6 hungry people in the
slums of Haiti are giving new meaning to the phrase "dirt
poor." As food prices soar, many desperate people are
eating mud cookies to stave off their hunger pangs. In Haiti
children are able to shoe dirt-streaked tongues after eating
mud cookies. |
< Read more about
the mud cakes>
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Within this context Restoration
Ministries ( Haiti) have decided to be God's hands extended
to some of these children by
providing meals for them at least 3 times a week for
now.
Currently we have about 75 children in that
program; we are trusting God to double that number by August.
Thanks to all our friends who have been helping us to be a
blessing to those precious children.
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Feel free to sow a special financial
seed of any kind
to our Ministry as we seek to practically show God's
love to the people of Haiti.
US $15 per month will feed a child and get
him/her involved in the After School Club.
Consider that the top 1% of the world's richest
people earn as much as the poorest 57%. When we talk about
the world's richest 1%, we are not talking about millionaires
living is luxury. If you are reading this article, there is
a good chance that you belong to this 1% group.
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Information below sourced
from www.wfp.org
Every year, an estimated 38,000
children under the age of five die - almost one
out of three because of malnutrition.
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| Haiti is the poorest
country in the Western hemisphere, and one of the most disadvantaged
countries in the developing world. It ranks 153 out of 177 countries
on the UNDP Human Development Index (2004). 75% of Haitians
live on less than US$2 per day, while 55% live on less than
US$1 per day. |
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Chronic malnutrition is widespread among the most
vulnerable, with severe or moderate stunting affecting 42 percent
of children under five.
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While easily
preventable, maladies like malnutrition and diarrhea kill
28 percent and 20 percent of children aged 0–5, respectively.
Food supply covers only 55 percent of the population and daily
food insecurity affects 40 percent of Haitian homes. |
| Haiti ranks along with Afghanistan
and Somalia as one of the three countries of the world with
the worst daily caloric deficit per inhabitant (460 kcal/day).
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Some 2.4 million Haitians cannot
afford the minimum 2,240 daily calories recommended by the World
Health Organization. |
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But thanks to the Child Sponsorship
Program these wonderful children are beinf fed... physically
and spiritually.
“When I give food to the poor, they
call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they
call me a communist.”
Archbishop Dom Helder
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However all is not lost and
God is in control and the child feeding program has started
and at least these children do not have to eat mud cakes.
Praise be to God. |
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