A statement issued by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs considered that greater and sustainable funding is necessary to stop the worsening of the crisis in the country.
“Without additional funding, the humanitarian crisis in Haiti will worsen,” the text read.
The funds allocated to support the country only reach a third of the required amount of $674 million.
This is the same low level of funding we have seen for the humanitarian response in Haiti in the past five years, in a country where needs have increased dramatically, the spokesman for the UN Secretary-General (Antonio Guterres) added.
The crisis, which has worsened since the beginning of the year, has caused displacement to triple in the past 12 months, with more than 578,000 Haitians forced from their homes due to insecurity.
More than half of the newly displaced have fled the capital, Port-au-Prince, in southern Haiti.
OCHA figures estimate that five million people, half the population, do not have enough food while others lack access to health care, with only one in four hospitals in the country functioning.
Nearly 1.5 million children remained out of school during the past academic year, and hundreds of thousands of out-of-school children face the risk of recruitment by armed groups.
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