UNICEF: Hygiene for life in Pakistan

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/pakistan_56308.html

SWAT DISTRICT, Pakistan, 4 October 2010 -- Water levels along the Swat River have returned to normal, but evidence of the devastation from recent floods is everywhere. Bridges, roads, schools, health facilities, water supply and sanitation systems in Swat Valley -- which were already suffering from the effects of military conflict over the last two years -- are severely affected.

In flooded areas of north-western Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the emergency has grown increasingly complex. Due to the pre-existing conflict in the province's Malakand division, women and children -- especially girls -- were already denied access to basic health and education services. Then the flood crisis caused a breakdown of communication networks and infrastructure, making this vulnerable group harder to reach with life-saving interventions.

To combat this situation, UNICEF has initiated water, sanitation and hygiene programmes funded by the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Department, also known as ECHO, in schools located in conflict- and flood-affected areas of Malakand division.

Under the ECHO-funded early recovery effort, some 60 schools have benefitted from the distribution of 9,000 student hygiene kits; installation of 30 hand pumps; and rehabilitation of 30 water sources, 120 latrines and 120 handwashing points -- among other activities. In addition, 250 teachers and 200 school caretakers have been trained in hygiene promotion.

"There is an urgent need to expand similar school-based water, sanitation and hygiene promotion activities in flood areas," said UNICEF Pakistan's Sabahat Ambreen. "They play a key role in controlling life-threatening diseases like cholera and diarrhoea."

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