Floods in Southern Africa

25/01/2008

The effects will be long-lasting: businesses will need to be rebuilt, homes will have to be constructed, crops must be replanted, children must return to school and efforts will have to be made to help bring lasting solutions through disaster preparedness planning. HUMANITARIAN COALITION member agencies CARE Canada, Oxfam Canada, Oxfam-Québec and Save the Children are working across the affected areas to help and support families and communities. Save The Children Canada Distributing educational kits with materials such as exercise books, pens and pencils and recreational kits with play items to children living in temporary camps. Save the Children is also helping reunite children with their families. CARE Canada Through numerous distribution points, CARE is providing essential relief assistance to tens of thousands of internally displaced people, including food and essential items such as shelter, blankets and hygiene kits. OXFAM Providing families with safe water storage and sanitation facilities and helping communities build local capacity.

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Oxfam

Providing families with safe water storage and sanitation facilities and helping communities build local capacity.

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CARE Canada

Through numerous distribution points, CARE is providing essential relief assistance to tens of thousands of internally displaced people, including food and essential items such as shelter, blankets and hygiene kits.

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Save the Children - Floods in Southern Africa

Distributing educational kits with materials such as exercise books, pens and pencils and recreational kits with play items to children living in temporary camps. Save the Children is also helping reunite children with their families.

Appeal Sponsors

World Health Organisation (WHO) - Donated $30,000 to go towards the appeal

UNICEF - Helped move affected families and contributed $20,000 of aid towards the rising health crisis