USAID partner the UN World Food Program (WFP) had provided emergency food assistance to approximately 796,000 people—99 percent of the 806,000 people identified as severely food-insecure—in Haiti’s Grand’Anse, Nippes, and Sud departments as of December 8. To date, USAID/FFP has provided more than $34.6 million—including more than $19.2 million to WFP and more than $15.4 million to the non-governmental organization (NGO) CARE—to meet the critical food needs of hurricane-affected families.
USAID/OFDA has provided nearly $6.3 million to date to provide emergency and transitional shelter assistance to families whose homes were damaged by Hurricane Matthew. As of December 12, USAID/OFDA partners had reached nearly 159,350 hurricane-affected individuals through emergency shelter interventions. In total, response actors had provided shelter assistance to nearly 446,000 people—approximately 74 percent of the 600,000 people in need of emergency shelter support—as of December 4, the UN reports.
As of December 10, humanitarian organizations had facilitated access to safe drinking water for an estimated 744,000 hurricane-affected people, according to the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Sector Working Group—the coordinating body for humanitarian WASH activities, comprising UN agencies, NGOs, and other stakeholders. The total represents approximately 99 percent of the 750,000 people targeted for WASH assistance by the humanitarian community.