UNICEF is urgently responding to a recent outbreak of cholera in Haiti that has so far killed 250 people and sickened 3,000. An estimated 150,000 people live in the affected areas along the Artibonite River and children under the age of five are especially vulnerable. Donate now.
UNICEF and partners are working to deliver antibiotics, saline liquids, chlorine tablets, tents, blankets, hygiene kits and water treatment tablets to the affected areas.
UNICEF stresses the importance of acting quickly so that the impact on children can be lessened later on. Steps are being taken to ensure the disease does not spread further to the heavily populated camps of earthquake survivors around Port-au-Prince.
The destruction caused by the January, 2010 earthquake in Haiti is still having a dramatic impact on over three million people, of whom 800,000 are estimated to be children.
- A donation of $250 can provide a course of oral rehydration salts to 714 children which, mixed with safe water, helps combat dehydration and diarrhoea. These are common symptoms of cholera.
- A donation of $202 can buy two basic family water kits containing items such as water containers, buckets, soap and water purification tablets. These are sufficient to meet the needs of 20 families.
Please join us in helping to contain the cholera outbreak in Haiti.
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