About half of the population of Haiti's 12-million people are suffering hunger and request urgent humanitarian assistance, according to the United Nations' latest report.
According to the authors of the document, drawn up by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid (OCHA), the survey of the phenomenon of hunger widespread in this Caribbean country is based on the observations of UN staff from their stay in Haiti in March this year.
According to Ed Vosorn of OCHA management, Haiti is presently experiencing 1 of its largest humanitarian crises in the past of the country.
She explained that 6.4 million people in request of urgent humanitarian assistance in Haiti are 5.7 million citizens who experience serious food shortages on a regular basis.
– Families quit their meals, children leave school to aid at home, and educational institutions are occupied by many displaced people in this country," Wosorn added.
One of Haiti's main problems is mass crime, in peculiar the action of strong gangs destabilising the country's political and social situation. In order to counter them in early April this year, the UN sent there the first branch of global forces to fight organised crime.
APW, PAP
