This situation is far from isolated. According to the Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan, more than one million people in the Central African Republic require WASH interventions, meaning water, sanitation, and hygiene support. Beyond that, around 32 percent of the population lacks access to a clean water source, 52 percent lack adequate sanitation, and 66 percent do not have access to handwashing facilities.

The health crisis remains acute and continues to worsen vulnerability, especially among children and displaced communities from Sudan. The country is currently classified at level 4 on the Multi-Sectoral Needs Assessment (MSNA) scale, which corresponds to a severe emergency condition requiring urgent humanitarian action, as the situation could quickly deteriorate into a catastrophic level 5.

Around 100 kilometres away, in Dekoa, the ForAfrika focal point and president of the VSLA unions, Rene Sanze Goumbe, confirms this reality.