UNICEF deploys in Forecariah District

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is deploying in the Forecariah district of Guinea to provide aid to some 53,000 people affected by war, the agency reported on Monday. UNICEF will improve sanitation, educational facilities, provide children immunisation and enhanced nutrition. With the upsurge of insurgency in Guinea’s troubled borders with Liberia and Sierra Leone in September last year, UNICEF said, there has been a massive movement of refugees and internally displaced people to the western part of the district, currently host to those now identified. UNICEF has disinfected most of the wells in the area into which corpses were thrown following the September invasions. Tents for classrooms and playgrounds have been erected to serve over 21,000 infants. UNICEF also said health workers had been trained to immunise 30,000 children between six months and 14 years old and provide them Vitamin A.