UNICEF: Children Face Crisis in Somalia
Damien Personnaz, Spokesman for the U.N. Children’s Fund was quoted as saying:Â Â
When you have a combination of drought and lack of water, it increases the level of malnutrition which is already extremely high among the child population in the area and, therefore, we might expect some outbreaks of diseases such as waterborne diseases because the less water you have, the more danger there is to drink it. So, the children are getting very much affected. (…) And, we also fear a lot of outbreaks of measles.Â
Mr. Personnaz went on by saying:Â Â
What we are trying to do is to combine the fact that when the children are in school, they can be fed… by the World Food Program through feeding activities. Water can be given to them in an easy way. (…) Sanitation facilities can be slightly better than if they were living in the open air. It is again the right place for them to be if we want to boost immunization campaigns. Â