The United Nations Food Agency appealed for $ 46 million to help 2 million Hitians facing serious hunger.

The United Nations Food Agency is appealing for $ 46 million for the next six months to help approximately 2 million hotians in a strict requirement of food, including 8,500 at the worst terrified level of 8,500. The appeal was released by Lola Castro, who was the regional director of the World Food Program for Latin America and Caribbean, recently returned from Haiti, where more than 1 million people have been well displaced in gang violence and half the population – 5.7 million people – have left – in immediate needs. Two million of them are in the two worst categories in integrated food safety phase classification, major international authority on hunger crises, and 8,500 in the worst stage 5 category, he said. This means that at least five people or one of the houses lack food and has to face starvation. Haiti is only one of the five countries in the world, who have 5 stages of people who are in the category of horrific hunger, Castro said, “And in the Western Hemisphere it is really dramatic.” The gangs have increased in power since the assassination of President Jeanle Moise in July 2021 and now it is estimated that 85 percent of them are controlling the capital and going to the surrounding areas. There was no President since Haiti’s assassination, and the top Nations official in the country said that in April, the country could face “total chaos” without money to face gangs. An un-assured mission led by the Kenai Police reached Haiti in Haiti last year to help the gang violence, but the mission was understood and weakened, which originally conceived only 40 percent of 2,500 personnel. WFP, the world’s largest humanitarian organization, is one of the United Nations agencies, mainly facing funding cuts from the United States, which provided about half of its financing in 2024. Castro said that the WFP reached more than 1.3 million people this year by using Carriageover Fund from last year. But the agency is now facing a dramatic position with only edible shares by July, which is until July to aid with emergency, new displacement or storm. In the last four years, Castro said that WFP always had stock to help between 250,000 and 500,000 people with any emergency. “This year, we start a storm season with an empty warehouse, where we have no stock to help any emergency, or we do not have to go and buy (food) locally, if it was possible in some areas, or to make a rapid human reaction,” Castro said. “We are very worried that a single storm can put hundreds of thousands of people again in human destruction and hunger in a single storm.” WFP usually provides food every day for about 500,000 school children, but that number will be cut in half without additional resources, he told in a video press conference on Tuesday. With $ 46 million, he said, WFP will be able to help 2 million hiratians in most of the need for food, will provide school food for half a million children, and will provide social security for very weak people in camps for the displaced. Haiti should not be forgotten because the world is related to other crises, Castro said, urged the donors to be generous. “We really need to stop it and keep the line on hunger,” he said. “We continue to call the human community to provide assistance.” With $ 46 million, he said, WFP will be able to help 2 million hiTians in the two worst IPC categories, will provide school food for half a million children, and will provide social security for very weak people in camps for the displaced.