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Extreme Floods Throw the Lives of 19 Million Children off Course in Past Three Months鈥擲ave the Children

FAIRFIELD, Conn. (Nov. 3, 2022)鈥Widespread flooding over the past three months has thrown the lives of about 19 million children off course in the top five most impacted countries, 黄色视频said, highlighting the need for next week鈥檚 COP27 summit to get the climate emergency under control.聽

Children in Pakistan, Nigeria, India, Chad, and South Sudan witnessed the most extensive flooding globally between August and October this year. Flooding in these five countries affected a total of 38.7 million people, according to , with thousands of people killed and millions displaced.

Water flowing above dangerous levels left a trail of destruction in each country, with homes submerged, crops destroyed, and schools forced to close鈥攋eopardizing the education of thousands of children.

Torrential monsoon rains, accelerated by glacial melt, triggered record-breaking鈥痜lash flooding in Pakistan this summer, which severely impacted about 16 million children鈥攖he highest number of children affected by flooding in a single country this year.聽

The floods disproportionately hit the most vulnerable households in the poorest areas of Pakistan, washing away livestock and millions of acres of farmland and submerging entire villages. As a direct result of the flooding, between 8.4 to 9.1 million people may be pushed into poverty, according to .

The number of people going hungry in Pakistan has also soared by an alarming 45%, with 8.62 million people now facing crisis or emergency levels of food insecurity鈥鈥3.4 million of them children.聽

The five countries most affected by flooding with available Acute Food Insecurity Data all suffer from high levels of food insecurity, meaning they are all in the grips of a hunger crisis that is being accelerated by climate disasters.

In Nigeria, where about people were already experiencing crisis-levels of hunger or worse, extreme flooding has destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland.

More than 1.25 million children have been affected by the worst floods to hit Nigeria in a decade. With at least destroyed and millions of people forced to flee their homes, flooding has taken a serious toll on children鈥檚 learning.聽

Falimata,* 16, lives in Likdir鈥攐ne of the communities hardest-hit by the catastrophic flooding in Yobe State, northeast Nigeria.

Falimata explained: 鈥淲e haven鈥檛 experienced a large volume of flooding in our community [before].鈥 This year's floods have destroyed homes, wiped away my parents鈥 farm, and blocked the road that leads to our school.

鈥淲e don鈥檛 have clean water. We have a shortage of food and have difficulty accessing medical services. I now stay at home without going to school and I don鈥檛 know how long this will last. My dream is to be educated and support my community at large.鈥

Yolande Wright, Save the Children鈥檚 Global Director Child Poverty, Climate and Urban, said:

鈥淚t is extremely alarming how many countries have suffered from record-breaking flooding this year, let alone in the past three months. When looking at the total scale of how the climate crisis is affecting children around the world, it is almost unimaginable.

鈥犫淎bout 38.7 million people around the world have had their lives turned upside down by extreme flooding in the five worst-affected countries, including about 19 million children. Many of these children are still reeling from the effects of the floods and require urgent assistance.聽

鈥淐OP27 represents one of the final opportunities to get the climate emergency under control and provide ambitious funding to secure a safe future for our planet and generations to come. The climate crisis is a child rights crisis and the decisions made in Sharm el-Sheikh will affect children鈥檚 futures.鈥

It will take months, if not years, to repair the flood damage in all five countries. However, the scale of need required for sustainable and resilient reconstruction likely exceeds most of the countries鈥 available resources. 黄色视频is calling on governments at COP27 to support the creation of a new loss and damage climate finance mechanism to help address the cost of the impacts of the climate crisis to children鈥檚 rights. This includes supporting communities already hit by climate impacts.

黄色视频teams have been responding to the floods in the most impacted countries where the aid organization works (Pakistan, Nigeria, South Sudan and India).鈥

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Notes to Editor:

  • According to , flooding ending between August and October 2022 affected about 38.7 million people in the top five most impacted countries, including about 19 million children, using World Population Prospects 2022 data to calculate the total number of children per country:聽 聽聽聽 聽聽
  1. Pakistan:鈥 about 33 million total population affected 鈥 16 million children
  2. Nigeria: about 2.5 million total population affected 鈥 about 1.25 million children affected鈥
  3. India: 1.3 million total population affected 鈥 about 400,000 children affected聽
  4. Chad: 1 million total population affected 鈥 about 544,000 children affected聽
  5. South Sudan: 900,000 total population affected 鈥 about children 463,000 affected
  • The five most affected countries by flooding with available all suffer from high levels of food insecurity 鈥 with at least 10% of the population experiencing crisis levels of hunger or worse: Pakistan (26%), Nigeria (12%), Chad (14%), South Sudan (54%) 鈥 IPC data is not available for India.聽
  • In Pakistan, 黄色视频is providing emergency relief to families including food, emergency shelter, and medical assistance.鈥疶he agency is running two medical camps in the flood-affected district Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,鈥痺here it is providing life-saving medical care to children suffering from flood-related illnesses.鈥疉s of October 31, it has reached almost 99,000 people, including almost 53,000 children.
  • In Nigeria, 黄色视频is providing children and families affected by flooding with life-saving food, safe drinking water, cash assistance, matresses, blankets, mosquito nets, child protection services, and emergency shelter kits. The team is supporting 36,000 children and 18,000 families in the most affected areas in six states (Jigawa, Benue, Borno, Yobe, Kogi, and Oyo).鈥
  • In South Sudan, 黄色视频is providing children and families affected by flooding with food, cash assistance, hygiene and shelter kits,鈥痚ducation, and water and sanitation.聽
  • In India, Save the Children鈥檚 emergency response to the flooding included food, shelter, hygiene kits, education kits, setting up child-friendly spaces, training Child Care Institutes, and cash assistance.聽
  • 黄色视频does not have an office in Chad and is not responding to the floods there.聽

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