The UN is to begin a major programme of food distribution in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, almost three weeks after the deadly earthquake.
Sunday, 31 January 2010
BBC News
The UN describes previous food aid efforts as "quick and dirty
Sixteen sites have been set up across the city with the aim of reaching two million people over two weeks. The move came as doctors voiced concern that the US had halted the evacuation of the critically injured to the US.
And ten Americans were held on suspicion of trying to take children out of the country unauthorised.
A Haiti government spokesman, Yves Christallin, said the Americans were caught with more than 30 children on the border with the Dominican Republic, where they said they had an orphanage.
The group from Idaho-based charity New Life Children's Refuge told the BBC they wanted to take quake orphans to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.
Women only
The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) said it had established fixed sites for food distribution, to begin on Sunday.
A Haiti government spokesman, Yves Christallin, said the Americans were caught with more than 30 children on the border with the Dominican Republic, where they said they had an orphanage.
The group from Idaho-based charity New Life Children's Refuge told the BBC they wanted to take quake orphans to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.
Women only
The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) said it had established fixed sites for food distribution, to begin on Sunday.
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