Sierra Leone - UNICEF

While the crisis continues, UNICEF staff will not be able to carry out their essential programmes. These include efforts to:

Rehabilitate the primary health care system in five key districts most affected by internally displaced persons (IDPs)
Eradicate polio and improve vaccination coverage to 90 per cent of all children under one year of age
Reduce child malnutrition rates in five targeted districts in the north and west
Construct and/or rehabilitate low-cost water and sanitation facilities, targeting schools, primary health units and areas of IDP settlement and return.
Enable 300,000 children to return to formal primary school and provide non-formal emergency education to 100,000 war-affected children and youths
Provide for the special needs of children, including some 5,000 child soldiers, 10,000 unaccompanied children and other war-affected children.