United Nations - UNICEF (United Nations International Childrens Emergency Fund)- 2010 Pakistan Floods / Armed Conflict

DONATIONS:

WHAT YOUR MONEY CAN BUY:

$6 can provide three 10-liter collapsible water containers for transporting and storing water.

$60 can provide 20 sheets of tarpaulin, providing simple shelter or ground sheeting for several families.

$200 can provide one recreation kit for 90 children to enjoy physical activity and play in times of emergency or displacement—containing items such as frisbees, jump ropes, footballs, volleyballs, handballs, whistles, a chalkboard and chalk, etc.

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InterAction site - Pakistan Floods Response 2010:

UNICEF and partners have set up nine medical camps and are providing medicine, water treatment tablets, nutritional supplements, hygiene kits, and jerry cans. The agency is also supporting the local authorities by providing clean drinking water.

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FROM THE SITE:

8/3/10:
Pakistan floods affect over 3 million; UNICEF responds for children

NEW YORK (August 3, 2010) — More than 1,400 people are dead and more than a million children are in need of emergency assistance after the worst floods to hit Pakistan since 1929 devastated large parts of the country in recent days.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, located in the mountains of north-western Pakistan, is the province worst affected by the floods. Many of the province's estimated 3.5 million residents lost their crops and saw their homes flooded, damaged or destroyed.

Crucial needs

Communication networks in many areas remain down or disrupted, and ground access is limited because bridges, highways and roads have been blocked or destroyed by the floods.

"There are crucial needs for food and safe drinking water," said UNICEF Representative in Pakistan Martin Mogwanja. "Potential disease outbreaks among survivors are a major concern."

Mogwanja has just returned from visits to two flood-affected agricultural districts where UNICEF is working to prevent the spread of deadly diarrheal diseases in young children.

Providing safe water to the hundreds of thousands of people whose water supply has been polluted or damaged by the floods is now essential. UNICEF is working with the Pakistani authorities to repair wells and drinking water sources as quickly as possible— and to provide chlorine tablets so that water can be treated before it is consumed.

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Pakistan Flood - U.N. Situation Report 8/3/10:

http://www.pakresponse.info/sitreps/OCHA_SITREP5_3_August.pdf

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FROM THE INTERACTION SITE - ARMED CONFLICT RESPONSE:

At present, UNICEF, with its government, UN, and humanitarian partners, is providing children and their families with safe water and sanitation, nutrition, health support, education and child protection wherever possible. Estimates suggest that tens of thousands of people are trapped in the conflict areas, where access is severely limited. UNICEF’s request for $41.4 million is part of the inter-agency revised Pakistan Humanitarian Response Plan (PHRP), which is seeking $543.2 million to cover the work of major humanitarian actors. The Government of Pakistan has welcomed the PHRP as complementing its own National Response Plan to this massive and expanding humanitarian crisis.