Share & more
A high-level team of aid donors visited on Wednesday a hospital, feeding centre and camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kenema in Sierra Leone’s Eastern Province, a source from the UN Humanitarian Assistance Coordination Unit (HACU) told IRIN on Thursday.
The team, led by the Deputy UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, Carolyn McAskie, said they were impressed by the level of coordination on the ground between UN agencies, NGOs and the government, according to HACU.
At the Lebanese IDP Camp they visited a children’s project run by the International Rescue Committee and UNICEF, which offers life-sustaining activities and protection for former child soldiers and child abductees.
They also visited a school project at the Therapeutic Feeding Centre and Kenema Hospital.
The team said that the visit would help them to make more informed decisions over funding. “It’s one thing for donors to make decisions and quite another to be confronted with the reality of the situation,” HACU reported one official as saying.
The four-day mission ended on Thursday.
This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions