Covid-19: Sweden donates 400,000 dollars to UNICEF-Tunisia

02 Mai 2020

Tunis, Tunisia, May 2 (Infosplusgabon) - Sweden Friday donated 400,000 US dollars to UNICEF-Tunisia as aid to fight against the Coronavirus, particularly for child protection.

According to a statement issued here, the funds, allocated through the Swedish cooperation agency for international development, will be dedicated to the purchase of protection equipment for health staffs who are exposed to risk of infection.

It will thus strengthen the measures set in the country’s strategic plan to counter the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mokhtar Dhahri, the official in charge of information at the UNICEF Office, the equipment will arrive in Tunisia in about 15 days and will be handed to the Tunisian ministry of Health as donation.

The statement added that UNICEF mobilized to raise funds from a variety of partners and donors in a bid to contribute to the strengthening of the global response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Sweden was among the first countries that released funds to respond to this appeal and the emergency needs for financing.

Criteria were established by UNICEF to identify the priority countries for the allocation of the funds.

“Tunisia was selected by UNICEF among priority countries whose situation responds to important evaluation criteria: the capacity of the government to respond to the crisis.

“UNICEF in Tunisia is extremely grateful to the support and the commitment which Sweden always showed to UNICEF and particularly in this large project of fight against the Covid-19,” said Lila Pieters, UNICEF representative in Tunisia.

The Swedish ambassador to Tunisia, Anna Block Mazoyer, stressed that “the battle to carry out must be done in a global way and each of us must contribute to that collective effort to preserve the world health”.

“Our support for Tunisia will continue also in the future to back UNICEF’s action beyond the Covid-19 pandemic and in a bid to reduce the consequences of the crisis on children,” the statement added.

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