Musa*, 15, lives with his mother, father and nine siblings in a camp for displaced people in Kosti, White Nile state. He is a bubbly young boy who loves to draw and play football. Playing football, he says, is the one thing he does every day to keep himself occupied at a time when life is difficult for his family, following nearly two years of conflict in Sudan, which has seen his family separated and displaced from their home in Khartoum.
Save the Children’s cholera response interventions including a city-wide cleaning campaign to stop the spread of one of the worst cholera outbreaks to hit Kosti in recent times, is helping internally displaced families such as Musa*s stay safe during the outbreak. At the height of the outbreak in February, between February 20 and 26, the Ministry of Health reported over 2243 cases of cholera - or an average of over 300 cases a day - in Kosti, with latest figures showing that 3,198 cases were reported as of March 17. At least 86 people are confirmed to have died from the illness during this period. Hamid Abdulsalam/ Save the Children