(9 Sep 2025)
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Port-au-Prince, Haiti – 9 September 2025
1. Various of UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher visiting shelters
2. Various of Fletcher speaking with displaced people
3. Fletcher greeting displaced people
4. Fletcher walking in the shelter
5. Various of Fletcher in crowd of displaced people
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“This is very hard to see. It is hard to witness. It is one of the responsibilities of this job, to be here, to bear testimony. And to recognize not only what we are doing, which is important but also, more importantly, what we are not doing. And it is that gap between what we are able to do and what we should be doing for the people here that enrages me. It saddens me, but most of all, it makes me furious.”
7. Various of people waiting to be treated at the hospital
8. Various of Fletcher talking to doctors
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“Every day here, you’re seeing thousands of people getting the treatment they need. It is only a drop in the ocean, but women who have suffered horrific sexual violence and are giving birth, men coming in with bullets in their chests, kids who are malnourished, they are getting treatment. But all of this is in jeopardy because the crucial funding line runs out by the end of September.”
10. Various of Fletcher visiting youth center
STORYLINE:
U.N. Humanitarian Affairs chief in Haiti on Tuesday warned that not enough was being done to assist humanitarian efforts and that funds could run out by the end of the month.
U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief (OCHA) Coordinator Tom Fletcher was in the capital, Port-au-Prince, for a one-day visit to the troubled country.
Fletcher aims to evaluate the deteriorating humanitarian crisis caused by widespread gang violence that has killed thousands and left more than a million homeless.
The Under-Secretary started the visit with a tour of one of the hundreds of makeshift shelters that house some of the 1.3 million people in Haiti who have been internally displaced due to escalating gang violence, according to the latest U.N. report.
Walking through the narrow paths in the overcrowded shelter, Fetcher said that what was being done to help the people was important but that there was still a gap in support.
“It makes me furious,” said Fletcher.
Fletcher also visited the Hopital Universitaire La Paix, which the World Health Organization called a “beacon of resilience” in the heart of the crisis when gang attacks forced many hospitals to close in an already fragile health system.
The hospital is at the forefront of the response to the current emergency and is the only public hospital capable of managing a large number of severely wounded patients, victims of rape, and maternity and infant care.
Making another appeal to the international community, Fletcher warned that “all could be in jeopardy“ if funds for the hospital run out by the end of September.
The OCHA chief ended his tour with a visit to a youth center that was inaugurated in June this year in the municipality of Delmas, with funding from UNICEF and the United States Institute of Diplomacy and Human Rights (USIDHR).
According to the U.N., Haiti’s gangs have gained “near-total control” of the capital and authorities are unable to stop escalating violence across the impoverished Caribbean nation.
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