The European Union says it is providing emergency funding of Euro 10 million in response to the unprecedented increase in humanitarian needs in Haiti.
It said that this brings the humanitarian funding committed for Haiti this year to Euro 18.5 million.
The EU said that people in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country face the consequences of overlapping crises fuelled by widespread violence, the ongoing economic collapse, and a cholera epidemic.
It said the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance in Haiti has doubled over the past five years reaching 5.2 million, nearly half of the country’s population.
In relation to the total population, the percentage of Haitians facing levels of emergency food insecurity is the second highest in the world, the EU said, adding that the rapid worsening of the situation in Haiti has also induced a mass exodus and a spillover of the humanitarian crisis to other countries in the region.
