IOM Empties Aid Stockpiles, Appeals for Funds for
Press Release
20 September 2011
Some 18,000 of the kits, each of which includes two plastic tarpaulins, two blankets, a kitchen set and a bucket – enough to meet the needs of 126,000 people - have now been distributed or handed over to local implementing partners for distribution to vulnerable families in the worst flood-affected districts of Sindh.
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Based on this data and the assessment of 2,547 temporary settlements completed a week ago by IOM and partner agencies in the IASC Emergency Shelter Custer, IOM is now appealing to international donors for US$14.6 million to procure and distribute emergency shelter and non food items to another 553,000 vulnerable people over the next three months.
“The money will go towards providing shelter and non-food relief items for the most vulnerable flood victims, meeting the needs of displaced people in temporary settlements and relief camps, tracking displacement, building local capacity and coordinating the work of the Emergency Shelter Cluster,” says IOM Pakistan Chief of Mission Hassan Abdel Moneim Mostafa.
IOM is also appealing for an additional US$2.2 million to support the NDMA and its provincial counterpart in Sindh – the PDMA; US$589,000 for the provision of primary health care for flood victims; US$ 300,000 for humanitarian mass information campaigns; and US$300,000 for security awareness training for aid workers working in flood-affected areas.
Working closely with government counterparts NDMA and PDMA to complement
At NDMA’s request, IOM procured and distributed 23,000 food ration packs to flood-affected families in seven districts in Sindh. It is also helping NDMA to transport relief goods to distribution sites and camps. Since mid-August some 59 IOM trucks have transported NDMA relief supplies, including 15,000 tents, 40,050 blankets, medicines, water purification units, and search and rescue boats for distribution in flooded areas.
For more information on the work of the Shelter Cluster in the 2011
For other information please contact IOM
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Saleem Rehmat
National Programme Officer/Public Information Officer
International Organization for Migration
IOM-Islamabad (
Tel: +92 51 / 2831061-5 / 2831040-3 / Ext:301
Fax: (92 51 / 2822968
Cell: +92(0)300 856 0341
www.iom.int
Tariq Khattak, Islamabad, Pakistan.
GSM = 0300-9599007 and 0333-9599007
Email: Tariqgulkhattak@gmail.com
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