The United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF has embarked on comprehensive clean – up of communities devastated by the 2022 Flooding in Anambra State.
This is part of interventions to prevent outbreak and spread of diseases as well as promote the health of the people of the areas, especially women and children.
The twenty-seven Communities in five local government council areas of Anambra state adversely affected by the 2022 Flood menace in separate reactions commended UNICEF and its partners ,Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and Central Emergency Relief Fund (CERF) for funding the sanitation exercise in the flood affected areas
The clean-up campaign was held simultaneously in the five affected council areas of the state, which includes Anambra East and West, Ayamelum, Ogbaru and Awka North.
The exercise involves desilting of Drainages, cutting of grasses, fumigation and clearing of health facilities.
In his reaction, the Programme Manager Anambra State Rural Water and Sanitation Hygiene Agency, RUWASSA,Mr Tochukwu Nwosu represented by Miss Chinelo Nwosu said UNICEF and other partners who funded the project, is giving hope to the hopeless and explained that the international organisations stepped in through the state Water, Sanitation and Hygiene,WASH, to improve the standard of the environment in the flood affected areas.
Mr Nwosu disclosed that the donor agencies also rehabilitated several water facilities and drilled new boreholes and sanitation facilities in schools and primary healthcare centres, as well as rehabilitation of private water facilities, which he pointed out were equally contaminated during the 2022 flooding.
He noted that the community driven environmental exercise which is a humanitarian gesture would further promote the welfare of women, youths and the children.
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