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- Plan works to achieve lasting improvements for children living in poverty in developing countries, through a process that unites people across cultures and adds meaning and value to their lives.
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Aid for Cyclone Sidr victims
21 November 2007: Child survivors of Cyclone Sidr, which hit Bangladesh last week, are receiving food, clothes and toys as Plan steps up its relief effort.
Official figures show that more than 3,500 people have died as a result of the cyclone. The final death toll could top 10,000 according to some estimates. More than a third of the dead are believed to be children.
Plan is working to help the traumatised child survivors, many of whom have lost parents and watched their homes and schools blown away by the cyclone, the worst to hit Bangladesh in recent years.
Aid on its way
Aid - including survival packs containing food, plastic sheets and clothing - is being distributed to 50,000 people affected by the storm, which destroyed more than 300,000 homes.
Plan has provided an initial $100,000 from its emergency fund and hopes to provide hundreds of thousands more during the coming weeks.
Initial relief efforts, expected to last around three months, will concentrate on providing much needed supplies and psychological support for children. Children are particularly hard hit by emergencies but are often overlooked in relief efforts.
Rebuilding
Following the relief effort Plan Bangladesh will work to help rebuild schools and communities and repair shattered lives. Seven out of ten schools in affected areas were destroyed by the cyclone.
Plan will also be working to provide safe spaces for children to play with their peers and give their parents the opportunity to rebuild their homes and communities.
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19 November 2007: Plan is providing emergency aid to 50,000 children and family members whose lives have been shattered by Cyclone Sidr.
The cyclone, which hit southern Bangladesh on 15 November, has killed 3,000 people and left nearly half a million people homeless.
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Plan India
E-12 , Kailash Colony, New Delhi - 110 048
Tel: 91-11-46558484
Email: planindia@plan-international.org
http://www.planindia.org/