How UNICEF's Water, Sanitation and Hygiene programme succeeds in mitigating public health hazards
Abed Al Razak, 8, sitting next to his brother and smiling to the camera. Neighbour, Ali Jasem Abdallah, a short walk from Merhje’s home, heads a household of 11. Like his neighbour, when Ali Jasem moved to Marej, his house had no sanitary facilities. "We built our own," he tells us, "yet with so many of us living this way, the effects were…