The U.N.’s World Food Program announced that it is facing a shortage of funds and won’t be able to help 100,000 people in Haiti this month who urgently need assistance.
A malnourished baby is measured by a health worker at the Gheskio Center in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, July 14, 2023. The Center monitors malnourished children's weight gain and growth on a weekly basis and hands out peanut-based therapeutic supplements to help them gain weight. The U.N.’s World Food Program announced Monday that it is facing a shortage of funds and won’t be able to help 100,000 people inThe 25% cut comes as a record 4.
The agency warned that its Haiti response plan is only 16% funded, and that it won’t be able to provide food to a total of 750,000 Haitians if it doesn’t secure $121 million through the end of the year.So far this year, the World Food Program has provided more than 450,000 school children with hot meals, often the only food they receive in a day.
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, according to the agency. More than 115,000 children younger than 5 also are expected to struggle with malnutrition this year, a 30% surge compared with last year.of goods and preventing people from leaving their homes.
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