Unequal aid.

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ENGLANDalltheway · 20/06/2026 00:05

Was watching the World Cup and Haiti in group with Scotland. Haiti a country with humanitarian crisis and food insecurity, not improved much since devastation several years ago. UK gives approximately £30,000 per year. 5.5 million people.

UK gave Gaza £138 million in 2024. Gaza gets billions from worldwide donations (no wonder they have their own charity UNRA).

Sudan get £146 million with a population of 51.66 million

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ENGLANDalltheway · 21/06/2026 19:54

Sunseasand2 · 21/06/2026 11:00

Very much enjoy these topics! I’m UN (name changed for this thread) and manage these large grants in Middle East living between Yemen / Syria / Gaza / Jordan and my partner is also UN and based in Haiti and central Africa (although I’ve never worked there).

I wasn’t quite sure on what your AIBU was? If it was that aid is unequal? Then what happens is every country that’s in emergency funding has something called an HRP (humanitarian response plan) where we along with local orgs / international NGO / government (depending on the country and what’s functioning!) map the needs and then publish the HRP with the total the country needs to meet all the needs - obviously these funding targets are never met.

For example to meet all the needs in Yemen in 2025 we needed just under 2.5 billion, the year ended with around only 29% funded, Haiti needed 908 million but only got 315.

Yes I think you picked up on a good point there are lots of “forgotten” crises that don’t receive as much attention for a range of reasons as others - also if there’s an emergency or new conflict throughout the year sometimes funding gets changed around.

Thanks for your useful reply.

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