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STORY: WFP / HAITI FOOD INSECURITY
TRT: 06:21
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: CREOLE / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 18 - 23 SEPTEMBRE 2025, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
23 SEPTEMBRE 2025, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
1. Aerial shots, port, UNHAS helicopter, city
18 SEPTEMBRE 2025, CITE SOLIEL, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
2. Various shots, uncollected garbage covers streets of gang controlled Cite Soliel
3. Various shots, Vaudreuil gang on patrol in Vaudreuil area, Cite Soliel
17 SEPTEMBRE 2025, INSTITUTION MIXTE DAVID MONDESIR, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
4. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Felix, displaced Haitian:
“You can film me, film me. For years I've been living on the street, thieves and bandits have driven me from my home. The state and the bandits have driven me from my home. This is where I live, where I sleep, I have nothing to eat.”
5. Various shots, displaced people living in school, nutrition testing
6. Various shots, Nelai Ka with grandmother Rose Adolphe being tested for malnutrition
7. Various shots, Rose Adolph showing room where she sleeps with 13 people
8. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Rose Adolph, displaced Haitian:
“They came into our neighborhood shooting very hard, stray bullets were hitting the houses. I was alone with this child and the four others, I had no choice but to evacuate. / Conditions are worse here. At night we all sleep on top of each other. Imagine eight adults and five children in a single room —13 people. / I cannot afford to feed his mother so that she can breastfeed him properly. Sometimes they go to bed hungry, and it's not my fault, because I don't have a job, and life circumstances mean that we're going through this right now, and it's causing malnutrition.”
9. Various shots, Rose Adolph showing school clothes salvaged when they fled their home
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Tanya Birkbeck, Spokesperson UN World Food Programme (WFP):
“It's increasingly difficult to move around the city. The city is increasingly being squeezed by armed groups and it's increasingly difficult for people to be able to have access to food…both people who are living in their homes within the neighborhoods where they've always lived but also at this point, we now have 1.3 million people who've been displaced in places like this. / People who are here don't have access to an income, they don't have access to food, so that's why we're seeing right now more than 8,000 people who are in sites like this who are facing famine-like levels of food insecurity. And amongst the children, it's often the children who suffer the most and the soonest.”
23 SEPTEMBRE 2025, DELMAS, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
11. Various shots, WFP distribution of rice, beans, oil, salt and special fortified cereals targeting 72,000 people
18 SEPTEMBRE 2025, VAUDREUIL, CITE SOLIEL, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI
12. Various shots, potentially productive rural areas in gang controlled Cite Soliel
13. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Augustin, gang member:
“We agreed because, at that time, we wanted them to come and help the community. That was what motivated people to get involved. At the beginning, we had not realized yet how serious the security issues were.”
14. Various shots, WFP and NGO partners explain how the project works to community participants
15. Various shots, Saidette Remy living situation
16. SOUNDBITE (Creole)Saidette Remy, participant in WFP’s canal rehabilitation program:
“The project will bring good things. Sometimes we go days without being able to send our children to school, and we don't have anything to eat.”
17. Various shots, woman carrying bananas harvested in jungle
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned today (2 Oct) that rising violence by armed groups in Haiti’s capital is restricting humanitarian access and pushing families deeper into hunger as extreme funding shortfalls force WFP to slash rations and suspend programmes.
Reports indicate that armed groups now control nearly 90 percent of Port-au-Prince.
As a result, more farmers are cut off from markets, further straining already fragile food systems and pushing food prices even higher with devastating consequences for food insecure families.
A staggering 1.3 million people have been forced to flee their homes in search of food and shelter.
Thousands of families are crowded into schools and public buildings, cut off from income generating opportunities and education.
More than half of those displaced are children, contributing to high rates of malnutrition, particularly in areas of the capital with minimal access to services.
Amidst the crisis, funding shortfalls have forced WFP to suspend hot meals for newly displaced families and slash food rations in half.
And for the first time ever, the lack of resources has prevented WFP from prepositioning food stocks to respond to a natural disaster during the Atlantic hurricane season.
This week’s UN Security Council resolution to support a larger multinational force to help restore security in Haiti is a critical and welcome step toward stability.
WFP stresses that security efforts must go hand-in-hand with scaled-up humanitarian and development investments to prevent further social breakdown, displacement, and regional spillovers.
Despite restricted access and extreme insecurity, WFP is on the ground and has reached more than 2 million people with life-saving assistance since January 2025.
Efforts to support longer term food security and reduce dependence on aid are also continuing as WFP works with the government to provide school meals for 600,000 Haitian students.
Over 70 percent of school meals are prepared using locally grown ingredients that provide income opportunities for local farmers and suppliers.
Alongside this, WFP has also been able to launch targeted community infrastructure projects, including in areas controlled by armed groups, to restore irrigation systems and boost local food production to help communities stabilize, rebuild livelihoods, and reduce reliance on aid.
Haiti is the only country in the Americas, and one of only five countries globally, with people facing catastrophic (IPC5) levels of hunger, which is equivalent to famine-like conditions.
It remains one of the world’s most severe food crises with 5.7 million people facing acute food insecurity.
Haiti remains one of the most underfunded crises globally, particularly for food security.
WFP requires US$139 million for the next 12 months to reach the country’s most vulnerable families.
Funding shortfalls threaten not only lives but also stability.
Food assistance is a lifeline in Haiti’s volatile environment; it not only helps save lives today, but can also reduce the risk of social collapse, displacement, and forced migration tomorrow.
