lolla is lucky unicef estimates that around two million children in mali are not going to school. girls in particular miss out as they're often expected to help out at home and married off at a young age. nearby as one of timbuktu's few medical centers. mother and baby visiting hours are always over crowded with infants suffering from disease and minorities and. the crisis in northern mali and years of war and terror i taking their toll. unicef is supported health care centers and money for years despite the difficult situation that. was the beginning of the crisis health centers like this one were attacked and had to shut down then we came back and since then we've seen increasing numbers of children here a lot of mothers are frightened to come here because the streets are still being jewish that's also why there isn't enough to eat and that affects their children's health the nutritional condition and so that's. unicef says ten percent of children here are acutely undernourished around ninety percent of timbuktu as residents live in poverty the lack of security has crippled the