The right package is not a catalogue — it is your family's week. In most Haitian kitchens that means rice, beans, cooking oil, spaghetti or macaroni, cornmeal, canned mackerel or herring, tomato paste, sugar, salt, and evaporated milk for coffee and porridge.
The World Food Programme builds its minimum food basket for Haiti from the same short list: a grain (rice or flour), vegetable oil, beans or lentils, and salt — priced monthly at about $180 for a family of five. Our packages are built on that basket, with the extras families actually ask for written in.
Fresh food on a ship: it spoils. Anything your family's city already sells cheaply, shipped at freight prices: you pay twice. And mystery items nobody cooks: a package is not the place for experiments — send the brands from home in the barrel, and the staples by package.
On our food shelf, each bag lists every item and its weight before you pay. If an item is out of stock in your family's city, you approve the swap first — equal or greater value, agreed with you, never silent.
At opening, the three packages are the offer — they are what keep the distributor fast and the proof clean. Custom lists inside the same staples are on the road map; join your city's list and tell us what your family cooks.
No — packages are shelf staples that keep. Fresh and frozen food does not survive the pickup rhythm honestly, so we do not sell it.
Tell us on the opening list or on WhatsApp. If a staple item your family needs is one the distributor stocks, we will say so plainly; if not, we will say that too.