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Aleksey, 14, lost two fingers and a thumb when a discarded shell exploded in his hand.

WASH programme

Children need safe drinking water, improved sanitation and proper hygiene practices to survive and thrive.

UNICEF helps bring clean water back to eastern Ukraine

For five years, villages in eastern Ukraine not only endured a devastating armed conflict. They also struggled with a shortage of drinking water.

UNICEF launches photo exhibition dedicated to water under fire

excavator is digging out pipe

Water heroes

The conflict in eastern Ukraine, now dragging into its sixth year, has repeatedly damaged one of the largest water systems in eastern Europe. The system sup

Aleksey, 14, lost two fingers and a thumb when a discarded shell exploded in his hand.

Children living in protracted conflicts are three times more likely to die from water-related diseases than from violence

In protracted conflicts, children under the age of 15 living are, on average, almost three times more likely to die from diseases caused by a lack of safe water, sanitation and hygiene than by direct violence, UNICEF said in a new report today.

Ensuring Water Security of Communities - Project

UNICEF project “Ensuring Water Security of Communities Living along the Contact Line in Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts in 2018 -2019”