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“We lacked safe water and guardians spent much time looking for water instead of caring for patients,” - Biton Mpwahiwa, health worker at Nyamithutu Health Centre in Nsanje, which now has clean water supply, thanks to cholera response support from #Japan: shorturl.at/knuKL

Following recent floods in Malawi's #Nkhotakota & #Karonga districts which have affected 20,000 people, displacing 9000 - including 4000 #children, UNICEF & partners are supporting the @MalawiGovt response, assessing the situation & providing essential supplies to the affected.

Kudos to @JapanEmb_Malawi for providing health centres like Nyamithuthu in Nsanje with medical, sanitation, and hygiene supplies to help prevent infection and fight diseases like cholera: shorturl.at/bjCM2

Hand-washing with soap and water is one of the best ways to protect yourself and those around you from diseases like Pink eye (conjunctivitis). Let’s teach our children to wash hands frequently. #ForEveryChild, health.

Today, the #UNICEF Rep @ShadrackOmol accompanied the Minister of Health @HonChiponda and WHO Rep @kimamboRN to meet #Nkhotakota flood-affected families and children. UNICEF is supporting #Malawi Government's emergency response. #ForEveryChild, partnerships.

Untreated water exposes #children to water borne diseases like #cholera. See how a solar-powered water system at Kaporo Health Centre in Karonga is providing safe piped water to the hospital, school, and communities: shorturl.at/dlZ69 Funded by #USAID through #UNICEF.

#CycloneFreddy floods damaged water facilities in Chinele Village in Blantyre district. Today, the village has two new boreholes that are providing safe water to 400 people, including children, thanks to collaboration between #UNICEF and @cpar in support of @MalawiGovt.

In Chikwawa, UNICEF and partners are supporting a village hygiene project that has so far constructed and rehabilitated 12 boreholes, built 6,700 latrines and constructed five water schemes, ensuring 24,000 people in the district have access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene.

#ForEveryChild, hygiene Thanks to support from @UNICEF Germany, through the #LivingSchoolsProject, students at Fumbwa Primary school in Dedza district now have piped water and water tanks and they now practice good hygiene: shorturl.at/nCKUX

Access to safe water is every child’s right. Through #USAID’s support, #UNICEF installed a solar powered deep well, two water tanks, and a hand washing facility at Mwazisi Health Centre to improve hygiene and access to water supply: shorturl.at/jqVWY

Good hygiene saves life. 📷 5-year-old Bridget Billy washes her hands with safe water and soap at Nansolola Community-based Childcare Centre so that she is protected from diseases like #cholera.

#ForEveryChild, access to safe water

"I am optimistic that with improved sanitation, more women will come to give birth here.” - Mercy Khonje, mother of two, after giving birth at Mzokoto Health Center, Rumphi”. Read Mercy’s story: unicef.org/malawi/stories… @UKinMalawi

A solar-powered water system constructed with support from USAID and UNICEF is serving at least 60 households in Rumphi and helping to curb the spread of #cholera and other waterborne diseases. #ForEveryChild, safe water @USAIDMalawi

Investing in hand hygiene is important and stops diseases like #Cholera. Malawi lags with just 2.5% investment in Water Sanitation and Health Budget. Let's prioritize hygiene #ForEveryChild, Hygiene. @WorldBank @MalawiGovt unicef.org/malawi/reports…

Handwashing with soap can help reduce the transmission of infectious diseases like #Cholera #ForEveryChild, Safe Hands #GlobalHandWashingDay2023 @UNICEFAfrica

📸 15-year-old Thewile Linkson washing her hands at Jombo Primary School in Chikwawa district. Handwashing is everyone’s responsibility. @EUinMalawi , @EU_Commission

"Improving nutrition is a precondition to reducing #child mortality, improving maternal health, combating diseases, and eradicating poverty and hunger,” - UNICEF Rep @ShadrackOmol said at a press briefing on Germany's additional nutrition support to Malawi. @KfW_int @BMZ_Bund

"We believe in investing in education from the early ages through the teen years. This helps to develop both the nation's and family's economy and reduces the risks of early marriages and can bring sustainable growth and development,"-Ingrid Marie Mikelsen, @NorwayinMalawi.

Every day, over 1,000 children under five die from diseases caused by unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene facilities. @UNICEF is working to ensure a water-secure future #ForEveryChild, everywhere. #WorldWaterWeek