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The provision of safe water and adequate sanitation facilities to communities is a key part of Save the Children’s work in emergenci
Children under 18 can represent 50% or more of a crisis-affected population.
When responding to an emergency situation, ensuring safe excreta disposal is an urgent priority in the disaster relief effort.
After a series of earthquakes devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010, safe excreta disposal became an urgent priority.
Sanitation is an issue often neglected in development decision making.
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.