Haiti Libre November 20, 2024
Port au Prince (Haiti Libre): The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) has resolved regulatory issues and will resume flights on Wednesday, November 20. UNHAS provides passenger and light cargo transportation in Haiti for the entire humanitarian community, including local and international NGOs and UN entities.
«Despite the temporary suspension of air transport, humanitarian operations continue actively in the Port-au-Prince area, although security conditions are unpredictable. In addition, humanitarian and recovery actions continue uninterrupted in the rest of the country,» said Ulrika Richardson, Humanitarian Coordinator in Haiti.
The World Food Programme (WFP) continued to provide life-saving food assistance to Haitians. This weekend, WFP and its partners provided a record number of hot meals in a single day to people recently displaced by violence, serving 37,935 hot meals at 26 sites in Port-au-Prince and Arcahaie. Since the beginning of the year, WFP has provided more than 2 million hot meals, which are prepared using locally grown and sourced ingredients wherever possible.
In parallel, WFP and its partners are currently distributing in-kind food assistance to 50,000 people in Croix-de-Bouquets, as part of a comprehensive distribution plan targeting more than 146,000 people in various neighbourhoods of Port-au-Prince by the end of the month. In addition, more than 97,000 people will receive cash transfers through a social safety net in collaboration with the Economic and Social Affairs Fund.
Across the country, WFP, in collaboration with the Ministry of National Education and its partners, continues to provide daily school meals to more than 430,000 schoolchildren in 2,000 schools. 70% of the meals are prepared entirely using locally grown ingredients.
In partnership with the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor (MAST), WFP continues to provide social protection assistance to 120,000 Haitians each month.
Since November 11, 2024, UNICEF has provided cash transfers to nearly 1,500 displaced people in sites in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince and distributed 5,000 hygiene kits and reached more than 24,000 people. In Saint Marc in Artibonite, 4,217 children benefit from child-friendly spaces set up by UNICEF.
The United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency (UNFPA) and Internationl Orgniation fir Migracion (IOM )continue to deploy their mobile clinics in displacement sites.
IOM is also providing water to 6 IDP sites and with its partners is responding to the growing population of deportees from the Dominican Republic, including support to more than 35,000 people since October 1st
