Children make up half of those affected by Cyclone Idai in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe

A small contribution was made from the sales at the Sandefjord Bibliotek exhibition, towards UNICEF Norge today. This is to help the children hit by the cyclone Idai, in Mozambique.

Cyclone Idai has turned out to be the worst natural disaster to hit southern Africa in nearly two decades, leaving more than 3 million people in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, with children being over half of those directly affected. The current death toll now stands at over 700, however, this is likely to increase in the coming days as water recedes and access to the most vulnerable
improves.

“Working with partners, UNICEF’s response is focused on scaling up life-saving interventions to 1.6 million people, including 854,000 children in the affected areas, especially cholera prevention and treatment, and the re-establishment of primary healthcare services to prevent outbreaks of communicable diseases, such as measles, and malnutrition. Flooding has also led to significant numbers of children being separated from their families, and tracing is an urgent priority.” 

Read more about the natural disaster, and UNICEF’s actions towards aid here:

https://www.unicef.org/appeals/cyclone-idai-response.html