UNICEF is helping families meet urgent needs following flooding and landslides caused by Super Typhoon Yagi, the worst storm to hit Vietnam in 30 years.
UNICEF is accelerating support for early recovery
Super Typhoon Yagi barreled into northern Vietnam on Sept. 7, 2024, causing widespread damage to infrastructure, homes, schools and water systems across 26 provinces.
Nearly 19 million people, including 5.5 million children, live in areas affected by the powerful storm.
Access to clean water is critical to safeguard children’s health, avoid spread of waterborne disease
As a direct result of the storm, 400,000 households have been left without access to safe water due to widespread power failures impacting water facilities.
UNICEF is delivering emergency water supplies — including water purification tablets, water tanks, ceramic filters, hand sanitizers, and soap — to government partners for distribution to households, hospitals, health facilities and schools.
“UNICEF is committed to urgently providing sustained support to the Government of Vietnam to ensure children and families have access to essential services,” said Silvia Danailov, UNICEF’s Representative in Vietnam.
“We have already started to deliver lifesaving support and are mobilizing resources to address the massive needs.”
Children are disproportionately impacted by extreme weather events
More than 800 schools are estimated to be damaged by the powerful storm. Approximately 2 million children have been left without access to education, psychosocial support and school feeding programs.
“The devastation caused by the typhoon is a tragic reminder of the disproportionate impact extreme weather events, intensified by climate change, have on children,” Danailov continued.
UNICEF is also working with the government to provide urgent support including:
- providing emergency kits with essential items – including psychosocial support materials, educational tools, hygiene supplies and basic health care products – to children and families in the most affected areas
- delivering vital medical supplies, including vaccines, malnutrition treatment, nutrition supplements and hygiene kits to health centers in the most affected areas
- extending psychosocial support to children affected by the trauma of the disaster
- supporting the reopening of schools by providing temporary learning spaces and educational materials
- distributing payments of humanitarian cash assistance to the most vulnerable households with children and pregnant women — allowing them to meet urgent needs and recover more quickly from the disaster
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Video edited by Tong Su for UNICEF USA.