Thread: UN agencies decry humanitarian crisis in Haiti and seek help for hungry families flee

UN agencies decry humanitarian crisis in Haiti and seek help for hungry families fleeing violence

People displaced by gang violence from the area of Cite Soleil sit at a makeshift shelter in the Delmas neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, June 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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PIERRE-RICHARD LUXAMA
Tue, June 20, 2023 at 6:14 PM EDT



JEREMIE, Haiti (AP) — The executive directors of two U.N. agencies warned Tuesday that Haiti’s humanitarian crisis has reached unprecedented levels amid reports of widespread hunger and gang violence.

Per capita, the number of Haitians facing emergency-level food insecurity is the second highest in the world, with nearly 5 million struggling to eat every day, said Cindy McCain, executive director of the World Food Program. More than 115,000 children younger than 5 also are expected to struggle with malnutrition this year, a 30% surge compared with last year.

“In many ways, Haiti is forgotten,” she told The Associated Press while on a three-day trip to the Caribbean country. “It is urgent that we pay attention.”

Overall, more than 5 million people in the country of more than 11 million need urgent humanitarian support, according to the U.N. agencies.

“Humanitarian needs are even greater today that after the devastating 2010 earthquake, but with far less resources to respond,” said Catherine Russell, UNICEF’s executive director.

Both Russell and McCain met with Prime Minister Ariel Henry and other officials during their trips to Haiti.

McCain also traveled to the southwest coastal city of Jeremie, which was recently hit by a 4.9 magnitude earthquake that killed at least four people. It also is struggling to recover from heavy floods earlier this month that affected most of the country and killed more than 50 people.

McCain met with children at a local primary school where the World Food Program helps feed more than 600 children whose meals are prepared with local crops.
Among them is Jules Evanse, an 11-year-old student who told the AP that the free meals have helped him and his family.

“If I can’t find food at home, I know that I will find food at school,” he said. “The food gives me energy to work.”

Lidy Azor, a nurse and mother of two who fled Port-au-Prince amid relentless gang violence, said the program has helped her save money and feel relieved that her children are being fed.

“It helps us in every way,” she said.

Haiti’s problems have worsened since the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, with gangs now estimated to control up to 80% of Port-au-Prince. The violence has led to a spike in starvation, with goods unable to move freely while people are forced to remain in their homes out of fear for their lives.


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I have posted on here that these animals breed in the filthy dirt. You can see it with your own eyes in this picture. Who pulls their pants down and has sex in that filthy place? It should make you want to vomit how sick and mentally deranged these people are.

No money, no aid, no oatmeal. We have given BILLIONS for decades with ZERO results, we have sent food, money, medical care. Give them nothing! They do not want to improve their country or their lives. They are BEGGARS.

They rape, breed, starve, steal, and fight each other. Then wake up and repeat the process.

Bring NONE of them here and not one dime to this sick culture of animals who come here and have turned Miami into Little Haiti, where they are perpetually pregnant, live off our backs, destroy neighborhoods, pay for nothing, steal, and go to garage sales to create a commotion and STEAL from homeowners. I have zero sympathy for these immoral bottom feeders.

Keep your pants zipped, send birth control, give the men vasectomies and nothing else.

They are rabid dogs who rape and kill each other and set people on fire in their streets full of gangs. Then these women are no better, they give birth to more gang babies.

They are not "humans".

Quit begging us for money so they can "feed and breed", it is disgusting! Send them all back, they are destroying America too.


NO THANK YOU!