“Mental health and psychosocial care for children and adolescents should be a major concern in humanitarian crises..." - Marking World Mental Health Day with a focus on children and adolescents, MSF seeks to support and provide further attention to this growing issue on the continent and elsewhere. 

The distance to available healthcare facilities is one of the main reasons why so many children in Bossangoa are suffering from severe acute malnutrition. Responding to this, MSF set up a successful referral system that brings more than 200 severe cases to the facility each month by moto-taxi.

In South Sudan’s Yambio County, the demobilisation of child soldiers who were forced to fight during the country’s long civil war is underway. These children would like to return to their old lives, but some struggle with all that they have experienced.