POUL DUE JENSEN FOUNDATION WATER Plan International | Ethiopia As the COVID-19 pandemic brought many of the planned activities to a halt, we agreed to divert some of the project funds from our programme in Togo to prevention of COVID-19 in Ethiopia through securing access to clean water, hygiene information and sanitary products. In the camps, access to water and sanitation is already a challenge, and the high population density makes it almost impossible to keep social distancing. With COVID-19 demanding more attention to hygiene and health measures, we saw a real risk that panic and chaos would spread among the many vulnerable people. With our swift action, we helped keep calm and a feeling of safety for almost 400,000 people in Ethiopian refugee camps. UNICEF | DR Congo, Lebanon, Yemen, Sahel (Niger), Afghanistan, Jordan, Vanuatu & more For both ongoing and new humanitarian crises during 2020, COVID-19 has layered an extra threat on children and families already in dire need. Through our support to UNICEF’s E365 emergency fund and an extraordinary grant toward WASH infrastructure, we have been able to provide lifesaving support to some of the world’s most vulnerable children and their families. - When DR Congo’s eleventh Ebola outbreak emerged in the Equateur province in June 2020, alongside a growing threat of both measles and COVID-19, UNICEF launched a swift emergency response: focusing on community engagement to protect people from the disease via water, hygiene and sanitation (WASH) activities. Karen Hækkerup, Secretary General, UNICEF Denmark WASH As COVID-19 began to spread across developing countries, the Foundation acted quickly, both diverting funding from on-going projects to disease prevention through water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) as well as releasing new grants for emergency relief. Besides the activities with our partners, we have made extraordinary donations to several other organisations: Doctors without Borders (MSF), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), the Human Needs Project and World Vision. F ind out more: pdjf.dk/en/news-water 19
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