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Two trucks loaded with rice from the UN's World Food Programme stocks and two others from private charities went by convoy to two hard-hit towns on Haiti's Tiburon Peninsula: Port Salut and Roche a Bateau. "It is very important to reach the most vulnerable communities and provide them with life-saving food assistance," a WFP spokesperson, Alexis Masciarelli, told AFP by telephone. "These people have lost their homes and livelihood and sometimes have nothing else to eat than the coconuts and papayas from the fallen trees."
In Port Salut, some in a crowd of people waiting in the frying sun for the food to be handed out confirmed that meagre diet since Hurricane Matthew ravaged their crops, livestock and fruit trees on October 4. "We need to eat, and also water and tin for our roofs," one 18-year-old, Gedeon Rigab, said. "I've eaten nothing but coconuts for five days," said another, Djymi Forestal, 25.
Nuns at a Christian school in Port Salut, Saint Dominique's College, supervised the unloading of the WFP truck. They had been expecting four trucks to turn up, but had to make do with one. Most of the sacks of rice meant to feed a family of four for a month were emptied into smaller bags that would last just three days, so there was enough to hand out to everyone.
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