Communication Officer, UNICEF Pacific
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| Miracle baby Clera and family survived Solomon Islands floods. She is two weeks old today. © UNICEF Pacific/2014/VWaradi |
A mother’s joy of giving birth to her healthy baby girl turned into a fight to save her daughter’s life. Only a week after returning home from hospital with her new bundle of joy, Madeline Hiro, found herself desperately trying to save her family from the raging waters that took their family home during the recent flash floods in Honiara. She now joins 52,000 people who have been affected by this disaster that has also claimed the lives of at least twenty-one people, many of which were children.
