Some 16 learning centers will be established attached to 8 feeding centers in Gode zone. Sanitation facilities will be provided in 50 schools for 15,000 students. Support for 14,700 Ethiopian returnees from Eritrea in the Desse, South Wollo area who are unable to re-assimilate among heavily drought affected local communities including families living in streets and separated and unaccompanied children. Constraints have included difficulties in working within an increasingly decentralized but still highly bureaucratic program environment at national and sub-national levels. These include support to EPI and malaria control, supply of therapeutic foods and support to nutritional surveillance, provision of shelter supplies, and provision of safe drinking water including water storage and purification.
Quick response is key to preventing a wide scale famine.
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