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SHELTERING FAMILIES RESTORING EDUCATION
We have distributed over 60,000 waterproof Our 270 temporary learning spaces are providing
tarps and shelter kits to families without homes 48,230 children with access to education
and made cash disbursements so 2,300 families during the new school year in Nepal. We have
could improve temporary shelters. We are also trained teachers on coping with these new
providing families with corrugated metal sheets, teaching conditions and how to support children
nails and wire to make more permanent shelters emotionally as they recover.

PROTECTING CHILDREN
At our 61 child-friendly spaces, over 4,800 girls
and boys have taken part in play and recreational
activities that provided them with a break from
their stress.

RESTORING LIVELIHOODS
To support farmers’ livelihoods, we distributed
over 144,000 tons of rice seeds. Some 23,000
families who lost their belongings received cash
grants from us to meet urgent needs.

SAVE THE CHILDREN LONG-TERM

ADDRESSING HEALTH NEEDS RECOVERY PLANS

We are operating mobile health clinics, providing Save the Children is initiating a three-year,

medical supplies to health posts, and have received integrated recovery plan that will keep us by

approval from the Ministry of Health to help the side of earthquake-affected Nepalese

construct more permanent facilities at numerous children and their families through April 2018.

health posts. We will also be constructing water and Our strategy is to focus on children’s health

sanitation facilities at these places. and nutrition, their access to clean water and

sanitation, access to education and child

A FOCUS ON NUTRITION protection services and families’ transition to

We have screened over 38,900 children for improved shelters, livelihoods and food security.

acute malnutrition. We have opened outpatient We anticipate working in 16 districts and, in total,

therapeutic nutrition programs and have trained serving 600,000 children and adults.

over 600 staff. At our mother-baby areas, 31,900

mothers and child caretakers have learned about

infant and young child feeding practices. In total,

over 42,300 children have received ready-to-eat

nutritious food, micronutrients, vitamin A and de-

worming medication.

PRIORITIZING WATER, SANITATION
AND HYGIENE
We are building latrines at schools and in
communities to help protect water supplies, and
have provided materials so communities can
repair water systems. We have also distributed
over 25,000 hygiene kits to families.

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