Haiti's US-led relief effort has adopted a new tact in their attempt to distribute food to hundreds of thousands of Haitians who are going hungry almost two weeks after a devastating earthquake struck.
Relief agencies, who have been struggling to food to distribute earthquake survivors, are now handing out food and other earthquake relief to women only, as they believe women will get the food to those who need it most.
At a food distribution on Sunday, men were left outside and women stood in line to receive food relief.
"I feel very good because this time they gave us enough food," said Sices, a displaced resident of Port-au-Prince. Food handouts have usually involved young people quickly claiming their places in line, laughing and joking as they know they will be the first to be served.
The old, the sick and mothers carrying small children have often been left empty-handed. Many food handouts have repeatedly turned ugly and dangerous as the crowds grow and people start pushing and shoving.
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The US and UN have been criticised over chaotic food handouts in Haiti, but officials say they are doing their best to feed the multitudes of earthquake victims.
More than two weeks after the quake that killed as many as 200,000 Haitians and left up to 1 million homeless, the US-led relief operation is struggling with how to supply food to everyone who needs it and keep hungry people's anger from erupting into violence.
Water, an even more immediate need, has largely been taken care of -- an achievement aid groups point to with relief.
But hard-pressed aid workers acknowledge that food is a persistent problem.
