In another shelter nearby, Judeline Auguste, 39, said she depends solely on remittances to feed herself and her 8-year-old boy, but the money barely lasts a week.
“It’s very rare that I can get a meal a day,” she said. “My situation is hard not because of me, but because of my son. He looks at other people eating all the time, and he starts crying, ‘Mommy, I’m hungry.'”
Meanwhile, those facing urgent levels of hunger live in Haiti’s northern, central and southern regions, as well as in the capital.
Jean Yonel, who fled his home with his family after gangs raided their neighborhood, said there are days that he, his wife and their seven children eat only white rice or spaghetti.
“I can’t provide every day for these children,” Yonel said. “Sometimes we take just a spoonful of food and leave the rest of the food for the kids so they don’t die.”
Yonel used to work as a mason, but with construction jobs drying up, he is now forced to search for wood to make charcoal. His wife sells second-hand clothes.
On days when they can’t afford a proper meal for their children, she mixes flour with spinach to keep their stomachs from rumbling.
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