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Haiti - Crisis : One in 5 Haitian children on the brink of famine
05/10/2024 10:09:24

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis conducted by the National Food Security Coordination (CNSA), the leading international authority on the severity of hunger crises, reveals that approximately 2 million children (nearly 50% of all children in Haiti) are facing crisis levels of hunger or worse. Of these, more than 760,000 are in emergency food insecurity (IPC Phase 4), characterized by acute malnutrition and an increased risk of hunger-related death. This is a 21% increase since March.

Haiti is currently grappling with record levels of people facing hunger, gang violence, spiraling lawlessness, and climate disasters causing severe food shortages. Food costs now account for up to 70% of total household expenditures, with inflation approaching 30%. In addition, farmers are having difficulty selling their crops due to toll roadblocks imposed by armed groups around Port-au-Prince, which cut off access to surrounding areas.

Armed violence and a lack of available humanitarian services and supplies are preventing Save the Children and other humanitarian aid agencies from reaching many children and adults in need.

"Without immediate access to life-saving aid, we risk losing an entire generation to preventable suffering and death. We are once again calling for unhindered access for humanitarian workers and the urgent mobilization of resources to save lives," said Chantal Sylvie Imbeault, Save the Children Country Director in Haiti.

Learn more about Save the Children :
Save the Children has been working in Haiti since 1978 in both urban and rural communities. The international NGO provides financial assistance to displaced families in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince who are living in schools converted into shelters in order to find more dignified housing solutions, while helping to free up schools, as well as financial assistance to host families in the Grand'Anse and South departments.

HL/ HaitiLibre