In the first months of 2024, Haiti continues to witness a continuous escalation in intense violence, lawlessness, political upheaval, and multiple crises that are destroying the lives and well-being of children and women, bringing the country closer than ever to total collapse. The children desperately need your support.
UNICEF is scaling up its response by providing support to the Government, through access to and continuity of basic services providing water, sanitation and hygiene, education, health, nutrition, child protection, gender-based violence and social protection services; supports cholera rapid-response teams; and maintains disaster risk reduction and emergency preparedness activities.
Devastatingly, more than 362,000 people are internally displaced including 172,300 children, and hunger and life-threatening malnutrition are at a record high across the country. Education has also been severely impacted, with over 1,000 schools being closed, leaving hundreds of thousands of children without access to learning.
The people of Haiti have already endured so much, deadly floods and an earthquake remain stark reminders of Haiti’s vulnerability to climate change, natural disasters, and its inability to deal with additional blows including decades of political instability, poverty, a talent drain of teachers, health and social workers fleeing the country, and a medical system that doctors in Haiti say has collapsed.
Even before the current crisis, UNICEF was on the ground, delivering lifesaving vaccines and malnutrition services and ensuring access to education, safe water, sanitation, and hygiene. Since the latest escalation, UNICEF has been stepping up efforts to protect families and provide lifesaving support—especially to children and their families who are trapped and cut off from essential services.
UNICEF is also calling for an end to armed violence against children and communities and is prioritising psychosocial support programs for children and protection services for victims of gender-based violence.
The children of Haiti urgently need your support, please donate now:
$15 - can help purchase 1 education pack to ensure children can continue learning
$21 - can help provide 40 sachets of Plumpy Nut, a therapeutic peanut paste, to help save the children’s lives
$39 – can help supply 1 girls empowerment pack making sure girls can thrive
$84 – can help provide 16,800 water purification tablets, each helping to create 5L drinking water ensuring children, families and communities have safe drinking water.
