'Single storm' could push thousands of Haitians into hunger, WFP warns as hurricane season begins
A single storm could push hundreds of thousands of Haitians into hunger, the World Food Program has warned, as hurricane season begins across the Caribbean.
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00:00With hurricane season underway in the Caribbean, the World Food Programme has warned that a single storm could push hundreds of thousands of Haitians into hunger.
00:10Haiti is particularly vulnerable to storms, and years of political instability have left it facing dire food shortages.
00:17Now the WFP says it needs $46 million to stave off disaster.
00:23Of course, the first of June we started the Atlantic hurricane season, and let me tell you, in the last four years I've been going to Haiti and much before, we always had, as well as a program, humanitarian stocks in the country to assist between a quarter to half a million people.
00:40If there was any hurricane, any earthquake I saw used for the Grand Arms in 22, for the hurricanes or storms or new displacement.
00:49This year, we start the hurricane season with an empty warehouse, where we have no stocks for assisting any emergency.
00:58Or we have no cash, neither to go and mine locally, if it was possible in some areas, or to do a rapid humanitarian response.
01:06We are very concerned that a single storm can put hundreds of thousands of people in Haiti again into humanitarian catastrophe and hunger.
01:14Violent gangs in Haiti have grown increasingly powerful since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in 2021.
01:21The UN has warned that the country could soon face total chaos without increased international support.
