Around 20% of older people living in temporary camps in Haiti are going hungry, according to a survey conducted by HelpAge International.
One year on from the earthquake, data shows that out of over 11,000 older people we interviewed, 2,330 eat only one meal or less a day.
Food aid distributions to camps for internally displaced people stopped in April 2010, at the request of the Haitian government.
Months later, reasonably priced food is extremely difficult to find. This situation looks set to get worse as global food prices hit record highs last week.
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