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Školení 800 členů komunity ke správné hygieně, sanitaci, prevenci nemocí a tématům spojeným s výživou.
Problémem je nejen nedostatek jídla a výživy, ale taky vody, bezpečí a zdravotní péče. Politická situace buď omezila nebo zcela ochromila velkou část infrastruktury. Země je závislá na dodávce vody, vodních zdrojů navíc neustále ubývá. Bez přístupu k vodě a sanitaci je víc než 15.4 milionu lidí – z toho 8.7 milionu potřebuje pomoc akutně. Nedostatek čisté a pitné vody vede k tomu, že lidem nezbývá než využívat škodlivých vodních zdrojů. Tím se vystavují riziku šíření nemocí.
Situaci komplikují i každoroční záplavy. K těm se přidává i riziko šíření cholery, která zasahuje převážně zranitelnou část populace – zejména pak oblasti, kde je vysoká koncentrace vnitřně vysídlených osob.
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The majority of the villagers of Maghshoosha still defecate in the open, which worsens health problems. Mutah says: “People here are used to defecating outside near the roads or farms. We are illiterate, we don’t understand what may affect our heath. Repeatedly, my grandsons had diarrhoea and stomach pains. We tried to cure them using traditional methods because there is no health centre in our village or in the neighbourhood.”
Mutah continues in a whisper: “Women and girls didn’t use latrines, but they would go to the bush, or other open places to defecate. We were waiting until night to go under cover of darkness to relieve ourselves, and this put us at risk of reptiles, insects or snakebite. At the same time this affected the dignity of women and girls in our society.”
Image 1: Mutah Jareb Hamidi outside her home
Fortunately for Mutah and residents of the village, with funding from the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), CARE intervened with a water and sanitation project. CARE constructed household latrines with handwashing facilities and distributed chlorine to purify water and containers. Through hygiene promotion they also learnt how to make drinking water safe and how to store it in clean containers, and how to care of their personal hygiene.
Mutah explains how she used to suffer from unclean drinking water. “Believe me, monthly I used to get diarrhoea,” she says. “The water was from contaminated wells. After we received chlorine we use the tablets to put in the jerry cans, and now there is no diarrhoea any more for me or the children. Chlorine reduced the diseases and diarrhoea in our village.”
Mutah continues: “We have been protected by CARE’s assistance. We now don’t worry about seeing girls go outside the house. They have a latrine they can use with dignity.”
She hopes that her village will have a health centre to save people’s lives. “I wish there were no diseases any more in this poor village. We have suffered enough. We deserve to live stable lives like others,” she concludes.
Image 2: The newly constructed latrine in Mutah’s village
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