“I often think that I can’t even find words anymore to describe the situation. Is it alarming, is it sharp, is it urgent? That’s all and even more. “”
The sentence on which she finally settled was “surprisingly horrible”.
Haiti is currently faced with an prolonged and aggravated humanitarian crisis-the violence of the gangs extending beyond the capital of Port-au-Prince, civilians are more and more landing the weight of this terror. In addition, Haiti is one of the five countries in the world in the process of living in famine conditions.
Eassenger crisis response
In the midst of this horror, Haiti’s humanitarian plan is only nine percent financeThis makes it the least funded humanitarian response plan in the world according to Ms. Richardson.
But despite these difficult and prolonged circumstances, Ms. Richardson also wanted to emphasize that political will and funding could guarantee that the current crisis should not be the future of Haiti.
“” Haiti’s fate does not need to be misery and despair“She said.” Haiti died in a negative [way]Haiti can quickly slide upwards.
Beyond the figures
More than 1.3 million people were moved to Haiti following violence – the greatest number of the history of Haiti – and almost half of the country suffers from emergency food insecurity.
These figures have become so large that it can be difficult to conceive of the real human impact behind them.
“All of this is just figures. Beyond each figure, there is a mother, a child, a father, a young“She said.
Sometimes these figures also obscure certain livelihoods. For example, the number of 1.3 million moved obscured those who are left behind, perhaps because they could not physically flee while violence has empiety in their neighborhood.
Richardson said she had heard many stories like this.
“This might be people in a wheelchair or an elderly parent whom they just have to leave behind. They cannot move with them. ”
Ask yourself, what can you do more?
Ms. Richardson said there was a lot about Haiti’s current situation that she finds frustrating – more precisely the fact that the international community identified the solutions to mitigate, if not completely, the crisis.
“We have tools, but The response of the international community is not tied with gravity in the field“She said.
For example, the Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) has half of the staff and very little of the equipment he needs to fulfill his mandate.
In addition, while sanctions against political leaders with gang ties are slowly settled, they are insufficient. Likewise, the international community is not enough to stop the flow of firearms.
“These tools must receive appropriate support and investment in order to achieve their full mandate. There must be a way to stop weapons in Haiti“Said Ms. Richardson.
Calling states to wonder what they can do more to put an end to the humanitarian crisis, Ms. Richardson said that the world had to perform several tasks.
‘A divided heart’
Ms. Richardson will take a new position in Libya on September 1, and while she is preparing to leave her years of work in Haiti, she told journalists that she had a divided heart.
On the one hand, it is a humanitarian crisis of “striking” proportions that the world seems to have forgotten. But. If the international community could adopt solutions before them, the crisis could end.
Haiti can turn the page
“” We cannot do what we do if we are not optimistic. Of course, we believe that there are solutions. Of course, we believe that the future is brighter than the present. »»
Ms. Richardson said that this optimism comes in part from the “honorable and brilliant” past of Haiti and the resistance it has seen on the ground.
“Each condition is there to turn the page … Haitians are extremely ready for this, so that the country has a more positive echo in the international community.”
Originally published at Almouwatin.com
