What you need to know about the new direct marketing guidance note
Nadine Mather and Chloë Loubser
Aid package targets drinking water in Guinea's Forest Region
One of the aims of a US$80million aid package signed on 20 July by the Guinean government and 14 UN agencies is to boost drinking water availability in the troubled Forest Region in the southeast of the country.
Nzerekore - The package envisages an increase in the number of people with access to drinking water in the region from 59 to 85 percent by 2011, with the main goal of reducing waterborne diseases like cholera and diarrhoea.
“There is a real need right now,” said Idrissa Souare, head of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) N'Zérékoré office in the Forest Region. “It's really very worrying.”
