{"id":6097,"date":"2021-11-21T12:13:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T12:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/unfpa-dma-team-to-assist-disaster-victims"},"modified":"2021-11-21T12:30:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T12:30:28","slug":"unfpa-dma-team-to-assist-disaster-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/unfpa-dma-team-to-assist-disaster-victims","title":{"rendered":"UNFPA: DMA team to assist disaster victims"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in concert with the Disaster Management Authority (DMA) has joined forces to mount response efforts for the victims of the recent floods and the Covid-19<\/p>\n

pandemic. The collaboration was built on Thursday last week as stated in the UNFPA statement. These intervention efforts follow the heavy rains which had swept the bridges in some parts of the country<\/p>\n

resulting in challenges of travelling by pregnant women and other women to access health services and family planning services in some quarters of the<\/p>\n

country. The floods are reported to have also washed away the crops and the houses thereby compromising their shelters and survival. The prospective recipients<\/p>\n

are set to receive the sanitary towels. \u201cThe dignity kits, which have been procured by UNFPA, contain hygiene products and have been designed specifically to assist<\/p>\n

women in distress, women that had to leave their households or had to be hosted by other families, so as to reinstall their dignity\u201d says the statement.<\/p>\n

Although it is not yet known at this stage how many women and girls are expected to be reached by this drive, the DMA will embark on the exercise of identifying the most vulnerable.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw increased cases of violence during the drought and sexual exploitation as<\/p>\n

well as forced prostitution in certain circumstances and we have seen that women are the biggest victims during these emergencies. \u201cWe focus on assisting women victims of drought, women victims of violence because<\/p>\n

of the drought and women being left alone at their households but our particular attention also goes to continuity of family planning services and continuity<\/p>\n

of access to maternity for delivery during emergencies,\u201d said the UNFPA Representative to Lesotho Dr. Marc Derveeuw. According to the statement, the Representative has \u201creaffirmed\u201d UNFPA\u2019s commitment to<\/p>\n

supporting DMA, in particular to ensure the continuity of Sexual and Reproductive Health services as well as the Gender Based Violence (GBV) issues against women.<\/p>\n

For her part, the DMA Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) remarked that: \u201cCovid-19 has also caused us a lot of stress and has also increased the vulnerability of<\/p>\n

women and girls. Most of our assessments results show that women and girls are mostly vulnerable, especially heads of households. \u201d Meanwhile UNFPA in partnership with the Office of the First Lady and the Lesotho Red<\/p>\n

Cross Society had also distributed the dignity kits to girls and women who had been affected by drought. \u201cFor UNFPA, during natural disasters, sexual and reproductive health needs are often<\/p>\n

overlooked, with staggering consequences. Pregnant women risk life-threatening complications without access to delivery and emergency obstetric care services<\/p>\n

and women and girls become likely to lose access to family planning services, exposing them to unintended pregnancy in perilous conditions. In addition, women and girls also become more<\/p>\n

vulnerable to sexual violence, exploitation and HIV infection,\u201d further reads the statement in pertinent part. DMA and UNFPA are also set to join forces to undertake the upcoming Lesotho Vulnerability Assessment.<\/p>\n

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