iciHaiti - Humanitarian : More than 40,000 children «trapped in a nightmare…»
On Monday, April 7, 2025, the international NGO Save the Children revealed that more than 78,500 people, including more than 40,000 children, have been displaced since the beginning of this year, more than double the number in the first three months of 2024. One in four children now lives in neighborhoods where access to lifesaving aid is limited.
Haiti's children "Children in Haiti are trapped in a nightmare. They are living in deadly areas controlled by armed groups, being robbed of a normal childhood [...] while humanitarian aid struggles to reach them," the report added. According to the NGO, during the first two months of this year, incidents restricting humanitarian access (such as roadblocks and violence against aid workers) increased by 75% compared to the same period last year. "humanitarian workers are struggling to safely transport aid and reach children and their families."
Save the Children deplores that "as the crisis deepens, governments are cutting critical humanitarian funding, further limiting our ability to fully respond to the crisis [...] Aid workers are doing everything they can, but it won’t be enough unless humanitarian organisations are granted unfettered access and humanitarian funding is dramatically increased."
