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Haiti's Internally Displaced Face Catastrophic Food Insecurity Amid Ongoing Humanitarian Crisis
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According to recent reports, Haiti is facing a severe humanitarian crisis with over 700,000 people internally displaced from their homes, with more than half of them being children. This number represents a 22% increase compared to June. Additionally, the UN World Food Programme estimates that 5.4 million Haitians are struggling to find food on a daily basis, with an additional 600,000 people facing "crisis" level hunger. A coalition of 12 leading aid agencies has issued a call for immediate action to address the escalating hunger crisis.
It is crucial that efforts to restore stability and security across the country continue, alongside humanitarian aid to alleviate the immediate suffering of those affected.
We must not turn our backs on the worst hunger emergency in the western hemisphere. WFP is urgently calling for broad-based support to massively increase life-saving assistance to families struggling every day with extreme food shortages, spiralling malnutrition and deadly diseases.
While markets may still have food, violence and inflation have driven prices out of reach for millions.
What we're witnessing in Haiti isn't a food shortage – it's a full-blown hunger crisis.
Without immediate action the hunger crisis in Haiti will continue to deepen, with devastating consequences for millions of vulnerable people.
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countries
- 1.China
- 2.Ecuador
- 3.Haiti
- 4.Kenya
- 5.Russian Federation
organizations
- 1.United Nations
- 2.Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Initiative
- 3.Mercy Corps
- 4.Multinational Security Support Mission
- 5.NGO Action Against Hunger
- 6.Save the Children
- 7.Transitional Presidential Council
- 8.UN International Organization for Migration
- 9.UN World Food Program