A member of Chinese anti-riot team helps a local resident get food at a food distribution site opened by United Nations agency the World Food Program (WFP) in Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti, on February 2, 2010. The WFP is distributing 25-kilogram bags of rice to female heads of households across Port-au-Prince, via a 15-day program that began Sunday. The program aims to reach 2 million people during two weeks. [Xinhua]

Local residents get food at a food distribution site opened by United Nations agency the World Food Program (WFP) in Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti, on February 2, 2010. The WFP is distributing 25-kilogram bags of rice to female heads of households across Port-au-Prince, via a 15-day program that began Sunday. The program aims to reach 2 million people during two weeks. [Xinhua]

The food distribution program organized in quake-hit Haiti by United Nations agency the World Food Program (WFP) has reached 850,000 people, WFP spokesman Marcus Prior told Xinhua on Tuesday.

"We distributed to 112,000 on the first day and 212 by the end of Monday," Prior said over telephone. "We had 14 sites open Tuesday, up from 12 yesterday," he said.

The WFP is distributing 25 kilogram bags of rice to female heads of households across Port-au-Prince, via a 15-day program that began Sunday. The program aims to reach 2 million people during two weeks.

Haiti was hit by an earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale on January 12 which killed 170,000 according to government estimates, and also wrecked infrastructure making it impossible for many residents to earn money to buy food. In the 18 days from the earthquake to the start of the expanded program, the WFP reached 650,000 people, or 200,000 less than it has reached this week alone.