The team will include specialists in health, nutrition, water, sanitation, and social and psychological issues. This may give adults the impression that the children are not affected. However, this is not the case.
Children are extremely aware of their parents traumatic reactions.
Trauma experienced by the parents will have a great impact on the children, threatening their basic sense of security, Leth said. From there the relief supplies will be distributed by truck to the hardest hit areas, about three hours away.