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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Marcel Wah
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Dec 14, 2014
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• Category : Haiti News
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  BY JACQUELINE CHARLES, JCHARLES@MIAMIHERALD.COM
  12/11/2014 6:00 AM 12/13/2014 10:07 AM

  As part of the government's emergency response, community kitchens like this were launched on Ile de la Tortue off the northwestern coast of Haiti. The women cook the meals and then sell them to villagers. While a welcomed effort, the women say the demand for the subsidized meals is more than they can meet. PATRICK FARRELL, MIAMI HERALD STAFF

Overview

• Despite back-to-back hurricanes, food riots, devastating floods, and the hemisphere’s worst natural disaster nearly five years ago, the rate of extreme poverty in Haiti is declining, according to a new World Bank report.

  But with 6.3 million out of 10 million Haitians still unable to meet their basic food needs, and another 2.5 million even worse off because they are living below the extreme poverty line, Haiti still remains among the poorest — and the most unequal —countries in Latin America, said the report titled Haiti: Investing in people to fight poverty.

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