Severe flooding threatens lives and futures in Burundi paid UNICEFUSA
Weeks of torrential rain have devastated communities in already impoverished Burundi. UNICEF is supporting relief efforts. You can help.
A child stands beside muddy floodwater in Burumbura, Burundi after torrential rains washed away roads and houses, leaving hundreds of families homeless.. Roads, bridges and crops have been destroyed, livestock killed and vital water access points washed away. Houses built of mud bricks have literally melted in the rain, leaving hundreds of families with nowhere to go.
On January 29, 2020, children play in the muddy remains of a road washed away by severe flooding in Bujumbura, Burundi.Evelyne, a young mother, sits stunned in the remnants of her house, which collapsed overnight."I am desperate," she says."I have no idea where I am going to sleep tonight. We have lost everything."
A young mother sits beside the ruins of her home, which collapsed in the night in the Kanyosha neighborhood of Bujumbura, Burundi. rushed $100,000 to expedite emergency response efforts. The Mercury Fund provides immediate, flexible support to help UNICEF country offices reach vulnerable children in the crucial early days and weeks of an emergency. The fund also helps communities build back stronger, incorporating disaster risk reduction measures to protect them from future environmental crises.
In Bujumbura, Burundi, a woman with a baby on her back carries a basin filled with cooking materials she was able to salvage from the remnants of her home.Even before these disastrous floods, some 1.74 million people in Burundi, including 976,200 children, were in need of . In 2019, the country declared its second cholera outbreak and passed the threshold of a full-blown malaria epidemic, with 50 percent of the population affected.
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