The World Food Program repairs classrooms and feeds nearly half of the town's 220,000 people.
When we see children in the repaired classrooms it underlines how for UNICEF, the place where the development challenges of the future can be addressed is the school.
He met children in day care centres, elementary and high school students, and children with special needs, attending classes in temporary learning centres and repaired classrooms.
UNICEF support includes repairing classrooms and establishing tents and temporary learning spaces, and providing a range of supplies including school-in-a-box kits, school and recreational materials, and early childhood care and development kits.
By the end of the fourth week they plan and implement a community project: from toilet repair, to classroom upgrades, to emergency pad supplies.
After the programme was aired, the Ministry of Education repaired the classrooms.
That achievement, he said, "required mobilizing the support of various sectors in repairing damaged classrooms, establishing temporary schools, distribution of learning material, and re-deploying teachers, among many other factors".
Although Immaculate Conception itself reopened for classes on Nov. 5, much work needs to be done to repair mud-filled classrooms and rebuild a destroyed library and chemistry lab.
But each of its 134 stores also includes a repair shop, training classrooms and a delivery van with a crew to install customer purchases.
The project, documented on a dedicated Guardian website, distributed malaria bednets, trained local village health teams in basic medical care, repaired and built classrooms and installed boreholes.
