Emergency Nurseries Rescue DR Congo's Ebola Orphans
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In the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the worst Ebola epidemic in the country's history has ravaged entire families, leaving hundreds of orphans and children separated from their parentsIn a tent set up by the humanitarians, Neema Nyaloka ravages a two-month-old baby, wrapped in a woolly blanket. "Don't be afraid, I'm here, mommy is there," appeases the 23-year-old nanny, next to an Ebola treatment centre in Bunia, the epi…
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Emergency nurseries rescue DR Congo's Ebola orphans
With the disease still spreading five months into the epidemic, the nursery in the remote east is one of 12 receiving the children of those killed by the highly contagious haemorrhagic fever. "Many children have lost both their father and mother because of Ebola," Marie Bakikula, a caregiver at a UNICEF-supported nursery in Mongbwalu, told AFP. The mining town in Ituri province near the Uganda border is considered the epicentre of the outbreak. …
Nearly six months after the official declaration of the epidemic, hundreds of Ebola orphans are gathered in improvised structures in the heart of the country.... Read more In the DRC, emergency crèches for children left alone by the virus appeared first on Le Singulier.
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