A few miles outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, about a dozen Haitian workers are securing large sections of insulation and sheet metal against thick steel beams as they work to complete Convoy of Hope’s new 36,000 square-foot warehouse.

David Edson, Caribbean regional coordinator for Convoy of Hope, leads a small group of supporters from the U.S. on a tour as the men work. “We’re going to be able to hold up to six million meals at a time in here,” he says. “That means we’ll be able to feed more children here in Haiti in the near future.”

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The new warehouse, overlooking the Caribbean Sea and Port-au-Prince, is scheduled to open in late January 2012. Beyond being a conduit to bolster Convoy of Hope’s children’s feeding initiatives in Haiti, the warehouse will also act as a disaster response center for the Caribbean.

“If there is a disaster in the Dominican Republic, Cuba or Jamaica,” says Edson, “we’ll be able to quickly ship food and supplies out of here in response instead of shipping it from the United States, which will expedite the process and be less expensive.”

Convoy of Hope is currently operating out of a warehouse nearby that is less than 15,000 square-feet, not nearly big enough to accommodate the growing feeding initiatives in Haiti.

“We’re feeding more than 55,000 children every school day in Haiti,” says Hal Donaldson, president of Convoy of Hope. “Our goal is to feed 100,000 here and this new facility will undoubtedly help us reach that goal.”

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Being constructed with 230,000 pounds of steel, the building will be both hurricane and earthquake resistant.