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Pubescent girls face unique emotional barriers to returning to school after a disaster concerning water, sanitation and hygiene (WAS
The branding of humanitarian assets and programme signage (often in English) is common practice in displacement contexts.
Fourteen years of civil war left Liberia with crumbling infrastructure and one of the weakest health systems in the world.
Water chlorination is widely used in emergency responses to reduce diarrheal diseases, although communities with no prior exposure t
The provision of safe water and adequate sanitation facilities to communities is a key part of Save the Children’s work in emergenci
Post-disaster relief and recovery operations seldom focus on women’s priorities regarding menstrual hygiene.
Children under 18 can represent 50% or more of a crisis-affected population.
After a series of earthquakes devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010, safe excreta disposal became an urgent priority.
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.