Fears for children in flooded Pakistan
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UNICEF Australia says it's still raising money to help the victims of the Pakistan floods.
There are fears up to 70 thousand children who are already sick and malnourished, are at risk of dying, as the floods take their toll.
The United Nations has called for the international response to be more assertive.
UNICEF spokesman Tim O'Connor, says his group is concentrating on giving children the best chance of survival.
"UNICEF is assisting many thousands of children by delivering oral rehydration salts, which are crucial to giving lives back to children who have succumbed to diarah and dissentry we're setting up child friendly spaces in pmany places opening schools as soon as we can delivering school kits to try and deliver some sort of normalcy to lives that have been really upturned," he says.
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