UNICEF’s response includes emergency trucking of more than six million litres of water per day, the installation of water tanks and washrooms and distribution of vital hygiene supplies. UNICEF is also providing essential healthcare including primary care, vaccinations, and door-to-door screening and treatment of malnutrition.
Tens of thousands of children, most of them affected profoundly by the horrors of the conflict, have received psychosocial support to help them cope with their suffering and to give them a chance to simply be children again.
In addition to supplying much needed winter clothes and blankets to help families cope with dropping temperatures, UNICEF is setting up remedial education classes and providing prefabricated classrooms in shelters, to allow children to carry on with their education.
