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17 May 2024 — From Haiti, our Humanitarian Coordinator, Ulrika Richardson, is calling for greater protection and assistance for people living in areas affected by the ongoing violence.
Ms. Richardson said it is simply unacceptable that people going about their daily lives and children playing outside and going to school are targeted. Schools and hospitals are being looted and destroyed.
In the country, some 360,000 people are displaced, the majority of them women and children, including more than 160,000 people in Port-au-Prince.
Many families have been displaced multiple times and the recent coordinated attacks on the neighbourhoods of Delmas and Gressier on 25 April displaced another 10,000 people.
Following assessments in Gressier, our colleagues from the World Food Programme (WFP) are telling us that close to 2,900 people will receive daily hot meals for two weeks.
The agency has also continued food distributions in Cité Soleil, which, as you know, is one of Port-au-Prince’s most vulnerable and poorest neighbourhoods. They have now reached 80,000 people there since last Friday.
“It used to be very calm in my neighborhood,” a 9-year-old boy shared with @UNICEFHaiti. “But everything changed overnight.”
— UNICEF USA (@UNICEFUSA) May 17, 2024
His experience is sadly familiar, as so many of #Haiti's children have been exposed to horrors no child should have to endure. https://t.co/NWedqxwk0u
≈ 10,000
people displaced by attacks in Delmas and Gressier since 25 April
9.2 million
litres of water distributed by WASH partners to more than 71,000 IDPs in Portau-Prince since 1 March
220
tons of food shipped to southern Haiti on 15 May with the support of the Port-au-Prince logistics cluster
$562 million
funding gap for the Humanitarian Response Plan to continue humanitarian operations in Haiti until December 2024
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More than 50,000 displaced children and family members received medical care through integrated mobile clinics in Port-au-Prince
It is impossible to overstate the increase in gang activity across Port-au-Prince and beyond, the deterioration of the human rights situation and the deepening of the humanitarian crisis.
María Isabel Salvador, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Haiti and Head of BINUH
Briefing to the Security Council, 22 April 2024
Haiti: Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan
Humanitarian needs
The worsening security situation, the near-collapse of basic services, the impact of years of drought and natural disasters will leave 5.5 million Haitians highly vulnerable in 2024. Humanitarians will target 3.6 million people, 12% more than in 2023, with a funding requirement of 674 million dollars, to:
- 1. Provide a multi-sectoral emergency response to 2.2 million people in areas affected by sudden shocks linked to insecurity, forced population movements, natural disasters and epidemics.
- 2. Implement activities to strengthen the resilience of 3.6 million people, including actions that promote sustainable solutions and emergency preparedness.
As of 19 April 2024, only 8.1% of the total requirements, i.e. US$ 54,4 million have been financed.
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