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Haitian government to aid 6,000 low-income families

Port-au-Prince, Apr 9 (Prensa Latina) Haitian government will financially aid as many as 6,000 families affected by food insecurity, the Ministry of Education confirmed.

The assistance called Cash Transfert (monetary transfer) will support families in nine of the 10 departments of the country.

Some 2,100 families in Port-au-Prince, affected by the 2019 peyi lok (blocked country) period and municipalities with highest Covid-19 incidence, will benefit from such an initiative, the Education Ministry said.

The National Food Safety Commission indicated that at least 42% of the 11.4 million inhabitants really need assistance, and of them 905,471 are under emergency phase.

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