floods in Pakistan: Urgently needed donations for the flood victims in Pakistan - The UN refugee aid is 50,000 euros for emergency aid
Berlin. 3. August 2010. (Red / and). Pakistan is currently experiencing the worst flood in its history. The situation is highly dramatic. Over a million people are homeless, according to government data, including thousands of refugees from Afghanistan. The UN Refugee Agency is therefore € 50,000 for emergency assistance. UNHCR is to provide assistance on site by 250,000 victims of the tsunami.
has distributed the total UN refugee agency (UNHCR), 10,000 tents and other relief supplies such as blankets, jerry cans, kitchen sets and plastic sheeting in the affected region. Further 20,000 tents are being brought from the camps in northwest Pakistan.
The rains last week have destroyed houses, roads and bridges. More than 1.5 million people left homeless by flash floods and floods. Most of the flood victims in public buildings or schools seen. Among them are thousands of Afghan refugees living in Pakistan for decades, as well as IDPs in the Swat Valley in the north of the country. You have now lost for the second time in a very short time the roof over your head.
"The survivors are still in danger. They have little protection and need our help, "said UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres. "The Pakistani population has more than a million Afghan refugees received generous. Now it's show time for the international community, the same solidarity. "
" The challenge is huge, "said UNHCR's representative Mengesha Kebede in the capital Islamabad. "UNHCR was one of the first organizations that helped in this rapidly developing humanitarian crisis in the provinces of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa."
August is monsoon season in Pakistan. For the next few weeks, more rains are predicted. Help is urgently needed, said the Office of the United Nations.
asks the UN refugee assistance: "Help the flood victims in Pakistan":
UN Refugee
Donations 2000 8850
Sparkasse Cologne / Bonn - BLZ 370 501 98
Keywords: Emergency Pakistan
Donations online and further information: www.uno-fluechtlingshilfe.de
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