For many children summer holidays are a wonderful period to forget about classes and textbooks and spend the day playing and relaxing. Unfortunately, 2 weeks after the Cyclone Aila, that's the last thing the children can do here.
A boy from Gabura (Satkhira district)was drying the flooded school textbooks of he and his siblings on June 3rd when Susan Davis, President and CEO of BRAC USA was visiting cyclone-affected areas of Bangladesh. As hundreds of thousands of other families, they have relocated all they could save from ferocious tidal waves to the temporary shelters (shown in the photo above) where they live now.
The village of Gabura is one of the areas where BRAC delivers emergency aid relief. Below is the dashboard summary of the relief provided by BRAC to Barisal, Bagerhat, Khulna and Satkhira districts of Bangladesh as of June 11, 2009.
• Safe Water - 51,783 families
• Meal Packet- 14,918 families*
• Dry Food Package – 34,308 families**
• Biscuit Packs - 3,775 children***
• Plastic Sheets for Shelter – 7000 p.c.
• Ponds Drained of Saline Water – 40
*A Meal Packet consists of 5 kg rice, 1 kg dal, 0.5 liters cooking oil, 0.5 kg salt, 1 kg potato, matches, 4 ORS sachets
**Distribution of Dry Food Packages has been stopped and replaced by Meal Packages
*** 3 packs of nutritious biscuits and 0.5 liters of water per child
You can become a part of BRAC's relief efforts. $15 can provide a week of food-aid for a cyclone-affected family. Please consider donating online, or sending a check to BRAC USA, 11 East 44th St., Suite 1600, New York, NY 10017, tel: 212 808 5615.
A boy from Gabura (Satkhira district)was drying the flooded school textbooks of he and his siblings on June 3rd when Susan Davis, President and CEO of BRAC USA was visiting cyclone-affected areas of Bangladesh. As hundreds of thousands of other families, they have relocated all they could save from ferocious tidal waves to the temporary shelters (shown in the photo above) where they live now.
The village of Gabura is one of the areas where BRAC delivers emergency aid relief. Below is the dashboard summary of the relief provided by BRAC to Barisal, Bagerhat, Khulna and Satkhira districts of Bangladesh as of June 11, 2009.
• Safe Water - 51,783 families
• Meal Packet- 14,918 families*
• Dry Food Package – 34,308 families**
• Biscuit Packs - 3,775 children***
• Plastic Sheets for Shelter – 7000 p.c.
• Ponds Drained of Saline Water – 40
*A Meal Packet consists of 5 kg rice, 1 kg dal, 0.5 liters cooking oil, 0.5 kg salt, 1 kg potato, matches, 4 ORS sachets
**Distribution of Dry Food Packages has been stopped and replaced by Meal Packages
*** 3 packs of nutritious biscuits and 0.5 liters of water per child
You can become a part of BRAC's relief efforts. $15 can provide a week of food-aid for a cyclone-affected family. Please consider donating online, or sending a check to BRAC USA, 11 East 44th St., Suite 1600, New York, NY 10017, tel: 212 808 5615.
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