Child Alert: Children in Haiti Facing a Polycrisis
Summary: UNICEF's Child Alert on Haiti, October 2025. It says more than 3.3 million children needed humanitarian aid in 2025, up from 3 million in 2024, and that about 680,000 children were among the 1.3 million people displaced. It sets out the combined effects of armed violence, malnutrition, closed schools and failing health services, and asks donors to restore humanitarian access, raise funding, restore basic services, protect displaced children and invest in recovery.
Key Findings
- More than 3.3 million children needed humanitarian aid in 2025, against 3 million in 2024; about 6 million Haitians need emergency aid in all.
- Over 1.3 million people, including 680,000 children, were displaced, and sites for displaced people doubled to 246 in the first half of 2025.
- Only 41 percent of health facilities in metropolitan Port-au-Prince remain fully functional; over 90,000 suspected cholera cases since October 2022; 3.8 million people lack safe drinking water.
- 7 million people, over 1 million of them children, face IPC Phase 3 or worse food insecurity; about 8,400 people in displacement sites live in near-famine conditions.
- Over 1,600 schools were hit by violence and over 1,080 closed in 2025; at least one child in four is out of school.
- The UN verified 2,269 grave violations against children in 2024, nearly five times the previous year, and over 300 cases of recruitment and use of children by armed groups.
How to cite
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), 2025, Child Alert: Children in Haiti Facing a Polycrisis, https://unicef.org/fr/media/174976/file/UNICEF%20Haiti%20Child%20Alert%20FR.pdf.pdf
- Rights holder
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)