Highlights
In Syria, UNICEF provided a 500 KVA electrical generator for the water treatment plant in Deir ez Zour City to ensure continuous provision of treated water to 250,000 people during times of power outages, with UNICEF facilitating the safe transportation and installation of the generator, as well as provision of spare parts.
Despite the challenging situation in Homs, UNICEF has continued with supply and service delivery in some of the worst affected areas – including in Al Waer, supplying essential WASH and nutrition items as well as providing life skills and remedial education for children in the area.
In Jordan, UNICEF and partners have provided structured psychosocial support to 70,280 children and adolescents (47 per cent male & 53 per cent female) in refugee camps and host communities with 6,943 of these children and adolescent receiving more focused and more specialized case management services.
The health and hygiene promotion team in Domiz Camp in Iraq finished a second round of hygiene message promotion. While many factors contribute to the incidence of diarrheal disease cases – the latest decrease of diarrheal cases from 13 per cent in June to 5.5 per cent at the end of July can at least partially be attributed to the work of the health and hygiene promotion teams.