Haiti: violence and displacement leading the humanitarian crisis because funding needs are not met

Almost 1.3 million people in the Caribbean country fled their housesWith 15,000 additional uprooted last week after armed attacks in the municipalities of Dessalines and Verrets in the Artibonite department.

In addition, the United Nations children’s funds (Unicef) and its partners detected more than 217,000 children for acute malnutrition in 2025. Some 21,500 boys and girls were admitted for acute malnutrition treatment, representing only 17% of 129,000 children who should need rescue services this year.

This malnutrition stems from severe food insecurity across the country. The integrated classification of the food security phase (IPC) said that 5.7 million people – more than half of the population of Haiti – faced high levels of acute food insecurity between March and June this year.

Emergency of education

The children of Haiti also face an emergency of education. More than 1,600 schools remain closed in Haiti, an increase of more than two -thirds compared to the beginning of the year.

“Without access to education, children, of course, are more vulnerable to exploitation and recruitment by gangs”, UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric Journalists said At New York headquarters

In response, UNICEF offered learning opportunities to more than 16,000 children, and the agency has granted more than 100,000 children in mental health and psychosocial support.

Insecurity and lack of access funds

Despite the disastrous humanitarian needs and the laudable efforts of the UN agencies, the current support “is only a fraction of what is necessary in Haiti,” said Dujarric.

Insecurity continues to force the humanitarian response, causing challenges of access, supply shortages and the closure of health establishments.

Subsequently, the many displaced families with an urgent need for hygiene supplies, food, emergency shelters, medical assistance and other essential items are often unable to access them.

The humanitarian response is also hampered by a serious lack of funds.

“Haiti remains, as I have said here on several occasions, the least funded from our calls from sub-financed countries worldwide,” said Dujarric. More than the half of the year, the Haitian humanitarian response plan received less than 9% of the $ 908 million required.