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Haiti: Still Starving 23 Days Later

Bill Quigley, t r u t h o u t, 05 February 2010

Twenty-three days after the earthquake jolted Haiti and killed over 200,000 people, as many as a million people have still not received any international food assistance.

On February 4, the UN World Food Program reported they had given at least some food, mostly 55-pound bags of rice, to over a million people. The UN acknowledged that it still need to reach another one million people. The 55-pounds of rice are expected to provide a two-week food ration for a family. Beans and cooking oil are scheduled to come later.

The Associated Press reported that people in Haiti, at small protests, were holding up banners reading, "Help us, we're starving."

Over a million people are displaced. About 10,000 families are in tents, the rest are living under sheets, blankets and tarps.

One of the people living under a sheet is a brand new mother with her one-day-old baby. The New York Times reported that Rosalie Antoine, 33, and her one-day-old baby were living in a neighbor's yard with puppies and chickens under a sheet in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Port-au-Prince.

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