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Schools struggle without clean water
Rural Deir ez-Zor, : “The water pumping stations, providing water to northern and eastern villages of Deir ez-Zor governorate, have been badly affected by the severe electricity shortages.” explained Mohamad, 50. He is the principal in the Hatla Al Wosta school in Hatla village in rural Deir ez-Zor.” We didn’t hav...
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Clean water and good sanitation bringing wellbeing to neighbourhoods in Aleppo
In Syria, nearly two thirds of water treatment plants, half pumping stations and one third of water towers have been damaged because of the conflict. Nearly half of the people rely on alternative and often unsafe water sources to meet or complement their water needs and at least 70 per cent of the discharged sewag...
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UNICEF rehabilitates conflict-damaged sedimentation tanks to enhance the production of treated water
Alkhafsa water treatment plant, 90 kilometres east of Aleppo city, northwest Syria, provides safe drinking water to around three million people in the city and a number of towns and villages in the east and south of rural Aleppo. The plant contains 24 sedimentation tanks, aimed at improving the quality and product...
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UNICEF’s rehabilitation works improve access to safe drinking water for people in Aleppo
The rehabilitation of these conflict-damaged sedimentation tanks in Syria will improve access to safe drinking water in Aleppo. But additional support is still needed to complete the rehabilitation of three more tanks. With thanks to a generous contribution from Japan Embedded video follows
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Bringing life back to water-deprived villages in Dara’a
Syria, rural Dara’a, Lajat, August 2021 – , “This well brought life back to our land, so I’m treating it like a precious treasure!” says Yousef Al-Tabeesh, head of Al-Sateh village in Dara’a governorate, southwest Syria, as he looks at the village’s biggest water resource. “Since its rehabilitation I’ve volunteere...
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UNICEF delivers lifesaving water to the most vulnerable families in Aleppo, Syria
Since January 2018, escalating violence in Afrin district, Northwestern Syria, has forced over 200,000 people to flee their homes, seeking safety in Tal Refaat, Fafin, Nabul and Zahraa in northern rural Aleppo. Families took shelter in unfinished or abandoned buildings, makeshift camps and even out in the open, amidst a severe lack of services.…
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UNICEF provides children with safe water in Mahmoudly camp in northeastern Syria
UNICEF installed a water-pumping station at Mahmoudly camp for internally displaced families in Raqqa, northeastern Syria, benefitting over 8,500 people with improved access to safe water. Thanks to this intervention, every person at the camp receives an average of 50 liters of water daily. UNICEF also set-up water tanks, latrines and showers to…
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“I wish I can go to school and learn. I dream of becoming a doctor when I grow up,”
11-year-old Salameh, filling up a bucket of water to take back to his family tent at a makeshift camp in AlZhouriyeh village, eastern Homs. “I wish I can go to school and learn. I dream of becoming a doctor when I grow up,” he says. Salameh fled with his family the violence in their hometown of Palmyra more than f...
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UNICEF and partners rehabilitated 11 water stations in rural Deir-Ez-Zor, Syria
Ahmad, 10, lives with his family in Buqrus Foqani village, 40 km east of Deir-Ez-Zor. For the past two years, due to lack of water as a result of the damage caused to water infrastructure in fighting, children and families at the village had to rely on purchasing water from expensive sources, compounding their vulnerability after years of conflict…
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Water trucking in Syria
UNICEF is trucking 40,000 liter of drinking water daily, thanks to Department for International Development (DFID). Because every child has a right to clean water. Embedded video follows
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"We would go back & forth 5 times. My arms used to hurt."
"We would go back & forth 5 times. My arms used to hurt." Years of fighting in Syria have damaged the city's infrastructure where Haifa & her family live, forcing children to fetch water from public water points. This #WorldWaterDay, watch their story👇#Syria9 #ChildrenUnderAttack Embedded video follows
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UNICEF supports rehabilitating water infrastructure in Deir Ezzor
For many people around the world, using water at home is a matter of turning on a water tap, but for 13-year-old Musaab it’s a three-kilometer ride on a donkey to the Euphrates river. He had to make this trip three times every day to get the water his family needs. The back and forth rides between his village and ...