PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) says it has resolved regulatory issues and will resume flights to Haiti on Wednesday.
UNHAS provides passenger and light cargo transportation in Haiti for the entire humanitarian community, including local and international nongovernment organizations (NGOs) and UN entities.
Haiti has faced instability since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, and earlier this month, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) banned flights to Haiti for at least the next 30 days after gunmen fired upon US aircraft landing in the French Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country.
“Despite the temporary suspension of air transport, humanitarian operations continue actively in the Port-au-Prince area, although security conditions are unpredictable. In addition, humanitarian and recovery actions continue uninterrupted in the rest of the country,” said Ulrika Richardson, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Haiti.
The World Food Programme (WFP) has continued to provide life-saving food assistance to Haitians. Last weekend, the WFP and its partners served 37,935 hot meals at 26 sites in Port-au-Prince and Arcahaie, a record number of hot meals in a single day to people recently displaced by violence.
Since the beginning of the year, WFP has provided more than two million hot meals prepared using locally grown and sourced ingredients wherever possible.
In parallel, WFP and its partners are currently distributing in-kind food assistance to 50,000 people in Croix-de-Bouquets as part of a comprehensive distribution plan that will target more than 146,000 people in various neighborhoods of Port-au-Prince by the end of the month.
In addition, more than 97,000 people will receive cash transfers through a social safety net in collaboration with the Economic and Social Affairs Fund (FAES).
Across the country, WFP, in collaboration with the Ministry of National Education and its partners, continues to provide daily school meals to more than 430,000 schoolchildren in 2,000 schools. Seventy percent of the meals are prepared entirely using locally grown ingredients.
Since November 11, 2024, UNICEF has provided cash transfers to nearly 1,500 displaced people in sites in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince, distributed 5,000 hygiene kits, and reached more than 24,000 people. In Saint-Marc in Artibonite, 4,217 children benefit from child-friendly spaces set up by UNICEF.
The United Nations Sexual and Reproductive Health Agency (UNFPA) and IOM continue deploying mobile clinics in displacement sites.
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