Integrating into School Curriculum in Lesotho - PreventionWeb

access to schools. The World Food
Program indicated that they were not
able to supply food to 2,225 children
during a period of 53 days.
8. 20 schools in Maseru had to be closed
because their drinking water supply was
interrupted for 2 weeks;
9. There were indirect impacts on
children’s ability to learn arising from
their situation at home; those whose
homes were destroyed had to live in
cramped conditions with other relatives,
whilst other suffered the effects of
reduced household food security as a
result of the destruction of crops;
10. The floods impacted on community
activities, where the few schools used by
communities for various activities were
damaged or inaccessible;
11. None of the schools were used as
shelters; this is an opportunity to
reconstruct school facilities to function
as emergency shelters should the need
emerge in the future.
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