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ASSISTANCE PROVIDED BY THE U.
So GOWUWENT
The U, S. Government provided the follaving P. L. 480 food carmodities
through CAFE:
Est. Market Value
967,000 lbs. of CSM $ 72,525
923,000 lbs. of nmfat dry milk 203,000
5,118,000 lbs. of conmeal 178,625
1,773,000 lbs. of bulgw 72,515
$526,665
ASSISTANCE PROVIDED BY U.
CAFE (HACHO)
So VOLUNTARY A~~
When =ports were received early in January of 1968 of Inpending famine,
CARE obtained appmval for a special emer-gency program involving U. So
Title 11 food from the USG. HACHO people served as adviso:rs for the
program and the GOH provided technicians. The propyam concept involved
mom into the area with intensive food-fo-work projects,, with rations
for both workers and family members, It was planned to last six months
from March to August 1968. Subsequent investigations added areas not in
the origlnal HACHO zone, and me portion of the HACHO zone received food
for only three mmths because the need was less. The large scale work
projects involved over 200,000 people. They concentrated cm mad improvement,
new feeder road construction, anti-erosion terracing, irrigation and
drainage ditches. The projects were directly designed to bnprove the
agricultural situation in the area to lessen the likelihood of a similar
situation in the future. This was in contrast with two previous famines in
Haiti since World War I1 in which the U. So gave assistance!. Then food was
brought in at the last minute when people were already starving and no work
was done to inprove the area.
Fran its awn =sources CARE provided tools, equipmnt and other supplies
valued at . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $48,060
The U. So Embassy carmented that the Haitian program was one of the first
anywhere with an effort made to move in fast enough to produce positive
betterment of the ma, while at the sam time meeting nutrition needs;
that at the UN level FA0 was seeking to set up a crop failure prediction
center; that in time efforts to avert famine elsewhere might benefit frwn
the experience gained in Haiti.
ASSISTANCE PROVIED BY OTHER NATImS : None Reported.