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UNICEF
News item 15 August 2008 Latest news
UNICEF supplies UNICEF, in coordination with other humanitarian agencies, is currently concentrating its efforts on delivering nutritional supplies for children and hygiene items as well as is trying to provide affected populations with drinking water and access to sanitary facilities. One hundred tarpaulins, five hundred hygiene kits and supplies of blankets and other items are now being distributed. In addition, 500 school-in-a-box kits, 500 recreational kits, 600 basic family water kits, 3,000 emergency drinking water kits, 5,000 packs of water purification tablets, 30 water tanks for 10,000, 5,000 and 1,500 litres, 1,250 jerrycans and 18 water distribution ramps are en route to Tbilisi from UNICEF Supply Division in Copenhagen. The aid will be sufficient to satisfy the short term needs of approximately 6,000 affected families.
“We need to resume normal childhood activities for children and to ensure that protection mechanisms and health standards are in place for them”, said Benjamin Perks, Deputy Representative of UNICEF in Georgia.
UNICEF is also planning to support psycho-social services for internally displaced children and to ensure that children have access to education when schools re-open in September.
So far, the estimated total number of persons displaced throughout the region as a result of the conflict totals nearly 100,000 people, according to UNHCR. This figure includes 60,000 children and women.
Imagine a baby orangutan sitting alone on the rainforest floor. Too scared to even move. Her mother nowhere in sight. She's alive, but she's severely traumatized from watching as her mother was killed with a machete. The Nyaru Menteng Rescue and Rehabilitation Center in Borneo, Indonesia, provides a lifeline for these many orphaned, injured, and abused orangutans.
But now this place of refuge needs saving, and we need your help >>
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