Haitian Orphans Go Hungry Despite Aid
July 14th, 2010 admin

Six months after the earthquake, Haiti is filled with donated food from all over the world. But in some cases, kids are going without. That’s because, while it’s easy to donate food, there often aren’t proper distribution mechanisms to deliver it to the people who need it . On CNN, Sanjay Gupta visited an orphanage with about 50 kids ranging in age from a few months to 18 years. The day he was there, they had one pot of beans to share—their diet for an entire day. But there are warehouses all over Haiti filled with food. One of them, a particularly huge one housing stacks and stacks of donated food, was just three miles from the orphanage. Gupta made a call and a truck was sent…
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