Unicef warned yesterday Thursday that more than a million children in Haiti are facing nutritional insecurity, stressing that gang violence, forced displacements and lack of humanitarian aid are at risk of vulnerable families and increasing the risk. “We are facing a scenario in which parents are no longer able to provide care and food to their children because of continuing violence, extreme poverty and the perpetuated economic crisis,” explained Gita Naragian, a representative of the United Nations Fund. Violence restricts children’s access to food over much of the territory of the poorest of the western hemisphere and plunged families into a nutritional crisis, UNICEF explains. Overall, 2.85 million children – in other words, a quarter of the entire minor population of Haiti – have a high level of nutritional insecurity, according to the most recent data of the integrated food safety ranking framework (IPC). Health care and drugs […]
Source: News Beast
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