More than 250,000 children in Mosul with no access to clean water face ‘catastrophe’
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NEARLY half of all children in Mosul lack access to clean water, a shock new report claims.
The embattled city of 1.5million is in the grips of attempts by Kurdish and Iraqi forces top liberate it from ISIS.
Almost 500,000 of those left amid the ruins are estimated to be children - the same population as Manchester.
And a great number of those remain without water in what the United Nations has called a "catastrophe".
Many face the life-of-death decision of whether to drink unsafe water that can cause horrendous illnesses such as diarrhoea or cholera.
The constant stream of Iraqi trucks desperately trying to ship water to inhabitants is not enough.
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The Sun is supporting the AMAR Foundation, which works with the innocent children of Mosul to ensure they have access to clean food, water and shelter.
A generous £30 donation is enough to feed a family for one week.
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