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UNICEF provides basic health care for children and families displaced from Afrin

ECHO in partnership with UNFPA and the Monastery Saint James the Mutilated provides basic health care for children and families displaced from Afrin

UNICEF

a baby — UNICEF/Syria 2018/ Khuder Al-Issa

24 May 2018

More than 137,000 people from Afrin districted have been displaced by escalating violence since 20 January 2018.

Many of them remain displaced after several months, mainly in Tall Refaat, Nubul, Zahra and surrounding villages. Many have left most belongings behind; once well-off families are now sheltering in industrial halls, warehouses and mosques, ill-equipped to host large numbers of displaced families In Kafr Naya, northern Aleppo, some 300 people displaced from Afrin are sheltering in the Kafr Naya School. In Zeyarah village, also in northern Aleppo, another school is now sheltering around 300 children displaced form Afrin and their families. Around 17 schools in northern rural Aleppo being used as collective shelters.

doctor examining a girl — UNICEF/Syria 2018/ Khuder Al-Issa Jaylan, 10, is examined by a doctor at the Kafr Naya school. The school shelters around 300 people displaced from Afrin district. “I am worried because she complains about her back. Jaylan is among hundreds of children receiving medical care through mobile medical teams visiting collective shelters hosting displaced families. Two doctors and three health workers work from a room in the shelter to provide nutrition support for the displaced families. With funding from the European Union (ECHO) and in partnership with UNFPA and the Monastery Saint James the Mutilated, mobile clinics and health workers are providing displaced children and their mothers with primary health care services and lifesaving preventive and curative nutritional interventions.

Jaylan has to carry water from the water tanks to the school because we don’t have running water in the shelter,

Jaylan’s mother

girl holding a box — UNICEF/Syria 2018/ Khuder Al-Issa A health worker screens 5-year-old Rahaf for malnutrition in a school-turned shelter in Kafar Naya village, north of Aleppo city. With funding from the European Union (ECHO) and in partnership with UNFPA and the Monastery Saint James the Mutilated, mobile clinics and health workers are providing displaced children and their mothers with primary health care services and lifesaving preventive and curative nutritional interventions. More than 137,000 people from Afrin districted have been displaced by escalating violence since 20 January 2018. Many of them remain displaced after several months, mainly in Tall Refaat, Nubul, Zahra and surrounding villages. Many have left most belongings behind; once well-off families are now sheltering in industrial halls, warehouses and mosques, ill-equipped to host large numbers of displaced families

mothers gathering around a mobile clinic — UNICEF/Syria 2018/ Khuder Al-Issa Families in Kafr Naya village wait for their turn at a unicef supported mobile clinic. Some 300 people displaced from Afrin are sheltering in the Kafr Naya School. With funding from the European Union (ECHO) and in partnership with UNFPA and the Monastery Saint James the Mutilated, mobile clinics and health workers are providing displaced children and their mothers with primary health care services and lifesaving preventive and curative nutritional interventions. More than 137,000 people from Afrin districted have been displaced by escalating violence since 20 January 2018. Many of them remain displaced after several months, mainly in Tall Refaat, Nubul, Zahra and surrounding villages. Many have left most belongings behind; once well-off families are now sheltering in industrial halls, warehouses and mosques, ill-equipped to host large numbers of displaced families.

With funding from the European Union (ECHO) and in partnership with UNFPA and the Monastery Saint James the Mutilated,

mobile clinics and health workers are providing displaced children and their mothers with primary health care services and lifesaving preventive and curative nutritional interventions.