Food Distributions


Lifeline's supply of food to distribute to the people in the tent cities (Relief Distribution) has now dwindled to the " Kids Food" that we receive from Kids Against Hunger, Impact Lives, Outreach International and Meals From The Heartland. The other foods that were being shipped in have stopped coming (those from large organizations like World Food Program, etc.).

I am seeing better health in the kids that daily receive the hot meals through Lifeline, but there is no shortage of people coming to clinic who are in desperate need. We continue to see many malnourished elderly, women, children and infants. One of the main causes is not the shortage of food available in the Haitian marketplaces, but the shortage of money to buy this food. Just last week when we held OB clinic nearly all the women had low hemoglobin and required iron along with their vitamins. At least 10 of the 60 women should have had blood transfusions!

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Food being unloaded into the warehouse