UNICEF is concerned about Haitian families being transported from the U.S. border to Haiti, and working to provide children and families in need with emergency assistance Sponsored by UNICEFUSA
A UNICEF team is in Cuidad Acuña in the Mexican state of Coahuila, across the Rio Grande from Del Rio, Texas, to evaluate the situation of children and families of Haitian origin who are migrating.According to UNICEF initial estimates, more than two-thirds of all Haitian migrants who have been returned to Port-au-Prince, Haiti in recent days are women and children. Some of them are newborn babies, with specific and immediate needs.
Children and families sent back without adequate protection are even more vulnerable to the factors that drove them to migrate in the first place “Haiti is reeling from the triple tragedy of natural disasters, gang violence and the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director. “When children and families are sent back without adequate protection, they find themselves even more vulnerable to violence, poverty and displacement – factors that drove them to migrate in the first place.”
A UNICEF staff member sits with a mother and her baby in Ciudad Acuña in Coahuila State, Mexico, across the Rio Grande from Del Rio, Texas, in September 2021.Initial assessments in Mexico and Haiti suggest that many of the children under 10 years of age were born outside Haiti or have lived most of their lives in another country.
Children are particularly vulnerable in emergency and crisis situations. Above, children migrating with their families play in a park in Ciudad Acuña, in Mexico's Coahuila state.UNICEF is working to provide children and families with basic assistance. In Ciudad Acuña, in the Mexican state of Coahuila, UNICEF will facilitate access to child protection services and will deliver drinking water, hygiene kits, mobile toilets and handwashing stations.
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