By 2023, one in every 23 people in the world I would need humanitarian aid. This was estimated by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in its report ‘Global Humanitarian Outlook 2023’. This means a record number of 339 million people and a substantial increase from 274 million over the previous year.

This means that 15% more aid is needed now than 20 years ago, but although the crises multiply the aids remain the same. It is the complaint made by the NGOs that put the figures to this drama: we are only capable of covering 24% of the needs, which leaves a global panorama that is difficult for humanitarian organizations to face.

Only the ten main crises that the planet is enduring right now, such as Haiti, Venezuela or Ukraineleave more than 30 million refugees.

And the situation worsens in those areas where the media focus is not on, as explained by José Fernández, president of Médicos del Mundo, the Sahara. There they have been stagnant for 47 years, without help and “with great problems for survival.”

In Senegal, for example, hunger forces the youngest to emigrate. They show the reality of two thirds of the displaced people worldwide, that they do so motivated by a food crisis, as Eloisa Molina, from World Vision, explained to La Sexta.

In Chad, also too far removed from the media, 2,000 refugees arrive a day fleeing the violence in Sudan. The humanitarian situation is critical because “the capacity to welcome them is limited,” says Susana Borges, from Doctors Without Borders.

Women and girls are the most punished. Another pending issue is gender equality, and that is because, according to Arantxa Sanz, from Aldeas Infantiles, the UN estimates that it will be necessary more than four generations to reach gender parity in the world, more than 130 years.