THE UNITED NATIONS WORLD FOOD

Published purpose

The project aims to reduce child malnutrition and improve school attendance and academic success by providing a daily meal to Haitian schoolchildren. The project seeks to increase income and longer-term resilience for smallholder farmers by promoting local food products’ purchase to support creating employment opportunities and building local capacities. Project activities includes: (1) providing a complete and nutritious daily meal to up to 100,000 preschool and primary school children across more than 400 schools in Haiti; (2) working with over 70 agricultural producer organizations to source food from smallholder farmers; (3) supporting over 200 smallholder farmers to help improve the quality of their products by financing the installation of processing facilities and equipment; and (4) providing technical training to over 200 smallholder farmers on storing and conserving grain, quality control, and reducing post-harvest losses.