UNICEF Creates Temporary Educational Spaces for 60,000 Displaced Children in Afghanistan

The United Nations Children's Fund has created temporary educational spaces and community-based education programs for approximately 60,000 displaced and returning children in Afghanistan. These facilities were established in April. Girls account for 60 percent of the children reached through the initiative.

In April the agency also delivered health services, nutrition support, water, sanitation and hygiene assistance, psychosocial support, and vaccination services to nearly 167,000 internally displaced and returnee people.

UNICEF installed five emergency oxygen production devices in regional and provincial hospitals to assist mothers and children.

The organization's April report states that about 22 million people in Afghanistan, including more than 11 million children, will require humanitarian assistance this year.