(28 Feb 2025)
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Port-au-Prince, Haiti – 28 February 2025
1. Various of Martine Villeneuve, Action Against Hunger’s director for Haiti, working in her officie
2. Close of hands
3. Close of Villeneuve
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Martine Villeneuve, Action Against Hunger’s director for Haiti:
“We were working on prevention of malnutrition and also working on food security. It was a full circle of life in terms of market, so it was from the producers, the private side of the market. And then we had like, also the families we were coaching and educating. So that project was funded by USAID, we received the stop work order on the 31st January, I think, asking us to suspend activities. And in the following days we received a communication for the consortium lead asking all the parteners to shut down activities totally and cut salaries from 15th February.`’
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5. Various of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator, Samantha Power, at press conference in Haiti after the U.S. promised aid to help those affected by August 2021 earthquake
6. Then-Haiti Prime Minister Ariel Henry speaking, power in the background
7. Henry and USAID Administrator leaving conference
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Port-au-Prince, Haiti – 28 February 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Martine Villeneuve, Action Against Hunger’s director for Haiti:
“As of yesterday, I think, the communication of the total closure of the project was done. So it means that we have around 13,000 beneficiaries that were assisted by our project that will not receive nutrition coaching anymore, that will not be able neither to get the food assistance that we were supposed to provide to them. So, and it is also 21 of our colleagues that we had to terminate the contract on 15th February.”
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9. Various of people and vehicles in streets
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Port-au-Prince, Haiti – 28 February 2025
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Martine Villeneuve, Action Against Hunger’s director for Haiti:
“Half of the population right now is considered as being in a humanitarian crisis. We have 5.4 million people that are in a situation of hunger crisis. It means that they are eating either less than one meal a day. We have also 6,000 people, mainly IDPs (Internally Displaced People) here in Port-au-Prince who are on the edge of famine. So the situation is very critical for Haiti. It is one of the biggest (humanitarian crisis) in the world."
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11. Various of displaced people moving aroundshelter
STORYLINE:
USAID cuts are hitting especially hard in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere which is struggling with a surge in hunger, gang violence, malnutrition and diseases including cholera.
Haiti depends greatly on community health workers that fan out through impoverished, rural areas to provide essential medication, oversee patient treatment as well as offer nutritional programs and vaccination campaigns.
Late last year, a new report found that nearly 6,000 people across Haiti are starving, with nearly half the country’s population of more than 11 million experiencing crisis levels of hunger or worse, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification.
In addition, more than half of all health facilities across Haiti have closed because of gang violence, with only 28% of them still fully operational, according to the U.N.
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