Abuja displaced persons lament over non-potable water

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Ahead of the Global Handwashing Day (GHD) today, a team of the National Task Group on Sanitation and non-governmental organisations like WaterAid and Action Against Hunger, visited the camp on Monday to mark the 2018 hand washing day.  GHD is a campaign to motivate and mobilize people around the world to improve their handwashing habits.





According to NAN, Joseph Jauro, the camp chairman, said there was no accessible water in the camp. He recounted numerous cases of diarrhoea and cholera cases and deaths among under-five-year-old children, saying this has been linked to poor sources of drinking water. He says;






The issue we have in this camp is malaria, cholera and snake bites, because of the bushes around, there are times when they come into your room, two women have been bitten so far.






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