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STORY: UN / HAITI HUMANITARIAN VISIT
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 12 JULY 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, UN Headquarters
12 JULY 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, speakers, press room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Lucia Elmi, Director of Emergency Programmes, UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF):
“11 million people have in one way or another, have their life shaken by the violence with nearly 600,000 people being forced to flee their homes and displacement since March has increased of 60 percent. So, a large number of internally displaced people. Almost 5 million people in Haiti are facing acute hunger with almost 1.6 million at risk of starvation, acute food insecurity according to the IPC.”
4. Wide shot, speakers, press room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Lucia Elmi, Director of Emergency Programmes, UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF):
“A large number of children – 2,000 - deprived of the right to education. So, children have been out to school for many months now with a large learning loss.”
6. Wide shot, speakers, press room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Lucia Elmi, Director of Emergency Programmes, UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF):
“The health system also has been heavily impacted. Only 2 out of 5 hospitals are functioning, that is more or less 18 percent, and we just visited this morning Hôpital de La Paix that was the only hospital that manage to stay open and to provide lifesaving clinical support to the entire population of the capital.”
8. Wide shot, speakers, press room
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Lucia Elmi, Director of Emergency Programmes, UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF):
“The level of violence, the brutality that we've seen, and we've heard from survivors has been really, very, very painful. And particularly, also in terms of sexual violence that has increased 400 times in respect to last year. Last year alone, hundred thousand cases of sexual values were recorded, and it's really something that is affecting the social fabric of the entire Haitian population.”
10. Wide shot, speakers, press room
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrea Koulaimah, Director for Latin American and the Caribbean, European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO):
“This crisis is not going to be solved by humanitarian aid: It has to be solved by the Haitians themselves. And the government assured of their commitment to do everything in their hands in order to transition out of the current crisis and they need our support in that transitioning out of the crisis.”
12. Wide shot, speakers, press room
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, (OCHA):
“While humanitarian action is required, we need to sort of look at the multifaceted approaches to be able to solve this crisis. Haiti needs real lasting solutions to enhance development, including the restoration of schools, health centers and other basic services. Over and over, the people are asking for three things: They want peace, they want the violence to stop, and they want to reclaim their lives.”
14. Wide shot, speakers, press room
Director of Operations and Advocacy for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Edem Wosornu said, “Over and over, the people are asking for three things: They want peace, they want the violence to stop, and they want to reclaim their lives.”
Edem Wosornu together with Lucia Elmi, UNICEF’s Director of Emergency Programmes, and Andrea Koulaimah, Director for Latin American and the Caribbean for the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) addressed the press today (12 Jul) from Pourt-au-Prince during their visit to the country.
UNICEF’s Director of Emergency Programmes Lucia Elmi said, “11 million people have in one way or another, have their life shaken by the violence with nearly 600,000 people being forced to flee their homes and displacement since March has increased of 60 percent. So, a large number of internally displaced people. Almost 5 million people in Haiti are facing acute hunger with almost 1.6 million at risk of starvation, acute food insecurity according to the IPC.”
She also said, “A large number of children – 2,000 – are deprived of the right to education. So, children have been out to school for many months now with a large learning loss.”
She continued, “The health system also has been heavily impacted. Only 2 out of 5 hospitals are functioning, that is more or less 18 percent, and we just visited this morning Hôpital de La Paix that was the only hospital that manage to stay open and to provide lifesaving clinical support to the entire population of the capital.”
She added, “The level of violence, the brutality that we've seen, and we've heard from survivors has been really, very, very painful. And particularly, also in terms of sexual violence that has increased 400 times in respect to last year. Last year alone, hundred thousand cases of sexual values were recorded, and it's really something that is affecting the social fabric of the entire Haitian population.”
Andrea Koulaimah, Director for Latin American and the Caribbean for the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) stressed, “This crisis is not going to be solved by humanitarian aid: It has to be solved by the Haitians themselves. And the government assured of their commitment to do everything in their hands in order to transition out of the current crisis and they need our support in that transitioning out of the crisis.”
Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations and Advocacy, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), stated, “While humanitarian action is required, we need to sort of look at the multifaceted approaches to be able to solve this crisis. Haiti needs real lasting solutions to enhance development, including the restoration of schools, health centers and other basic services.”
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