Migration Health
Water sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) is one of the main components in humanitarian response. A camp with 50,000 internally displaced people needs 750,000 liters of water per day.
Edited and produced by Tenley Garrett and Natalie Oren
Chris is 13 years old. He left Liberia because of poverty and Ebola. His mother wanted to find a better job to provide for his studies. A man helped them to leave but he did not follow through on his promises. Chris was separated from his mother and little brother.
With help of UNHCR, the ICRC, the Association of Women-Headed Families (French abbreviation: AFCF) and funding from the Government of Germany, IOM Mauritania reunited the family and helped them start a new life in Liberia.
Somalis are coming back to fight the drought and its effects in Somalia.
IOM Somalia is using Polyglu to treat drinking water and to help Somalis affected by the recent drought.