TodaysNetworkNews: 01 January 2010 - UNICEF: Indonesia - In Aceh, Indonesia, post-tsunami children are enjoying a better start in life than previous generations through UNICEF humanitarian aid.
Growing up healthy and growing up loud.
In Aceh, Indonesia, the post-tsunami children, enjoying a better start in life than previous generations.
Friends Misrina and Bunga - born just weeks after the tsunami and approaching their fifth birthdays, they attend one of the integrated health and early child development centres, built by UNICEF and its partners, as part of the unprecedented reconstruction effort here.
SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Salliati, care giver, Posyandu Plus Centre:
We hold sessions here from Monday to Saturday, when we have lessons and games and also give out a nutritious lunch.
In addition to immunizations and regular health checks, the Centres also provide ante-natal services for expectant mothers, as well as breast feeding counseling.
For Ainul Mardiah that help has proved vital.
SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Ainul Mardiah, disabled:
Before this place was built, I wouldnt have been able to have a baby.
Born without arms, she has overcome her disability to become mother to eighteen month old Zaidah.
The schools these children will go on to attend, will also be healthier places than they were before the tsunami.
At the Mata Ie Elementary School, contractors working in partnership with UNICEF are just finishing a bore well to solve its shortage of fresh water, one of many such improvements made at schools throughout Aceh.
SOUNDBITE (English) Teuku Reza, officer, UNICEF:
They never got fresh water. Insufficient water supply. Thats why were involved.
To improve hygiene and sanitation generally in the community, UNICEF has been supporting many initiatives including this sewage treatment plant with sludge being removed to leave an effluent clean enough to be returned to the environment, and feed these wetlands.
All part of the continuing effort to ensure the post-tsunami generation can enjoy the best possible start. ................................................................................................................ ( UNITED NATIONS CHILDRENS FUND: UNICEF TELEVISION ) ........................................................................................................................................................................ TodaysNetworkNews:
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