Assessments carried out by our teams over the past fortnight describe households sharing a daily volume of water that falls far below the minimum humanitarian standard for survival. Families told our staff they are choosing between drinking, cooking and basic hygiene — and that hygiene is the first thing to go.
The consequences show up quickly in children. Our mobile health points are recording rising rates of diarrhoeal disease and skin infections, both of which compound malnutrition in children who are already underweight.
1.1M
children in need of urgent humanitarian assistance
A child who is already malnourished and then gets sick from dirty water can deteriorate in days. Our teams are treating children whose condition would have been entirely preventable with a functioning water supply.
What our teams are delivering
- Water delivered by tanker to shelters and displacement sites where access allows
- Mobile health points providing primary care and malnutrition screening
- Hygiene kits including soap, water treatment and sanitary supplies
- Child-friendly spaces offering structured psychosocial support
Access remains the binding constraint. Supplies that are already procured and waiting cannot substitute for the sustained, predictable entry of humanitarian goods at scale, nor for the repair of the water infrastructure that families depended on.
We continue to call for unimpeded humanitarian access, the protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure, and an end to hostilities.
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