UNICEF empowers Anambra flood victims with multi million naira worth of items

United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, yesterday donated items worth millions of naira to the victims of the recent flood that affected seven local government areas of Anambra State.

The items include 100 drums of chlorine for disinfection of water sources. 40 cartons of Aquatabs for household water treatment and 320 cartons of Ready to Use therapeutic food (RUTF).

The items were handover to the state deputy governor Dr Onyekachukwu Ibezim who represented Governor Chukwuma Soludo at the ceremony.

Chief of UNICEF Field Office, Enugu, Mrs Juliet Chiluwe acknowledged that the 2022 flood was the worst in a decade, adding that it affected 2.8 million people, of which an estimated 60 per cent were children, across 34 of the 36 states in Nigeria.

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