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| Halfway through the
year donors have generously provided US$5.1 billion for humanitarian
organizations to deliver critical aid to people in 24 countries, according to Valerie Amos (Photo Credit: UNAIDS) |
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| Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos at the 2007 World Economic Forum on Africa (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
The
UN’s Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief
Coordinator said “Halfway through the
year donors have generously provided US$5.1 billion for humanitarian
organizations to deliver critical aid to people in 24 countries.”
“For
example, in South Sudan the money has been used to provide nearly 450,000
people with safe drinking water while in Mali, nutrition agencies have been
able to treat around 77,000 children suffering from life-threatening or acute
malnutrition,” Valerie Amos noted.
She
said the deteriorating situation in Syria and neighbouring countries has
recently added US$4.4 billion to the original amount needed to help people
coping with the world’s major crises.
People
in Central African Republic, Niger, Afghanistan, Sudan, the Democratic Republic
of Congo, Yemen, and Chad, among many others, need help feeding their families,
treating malnourished children, and getting safe drinking water and other
essential supplies.
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| Photo Credit: Sustainable Development |
While
the situation has become much worse in some countries, the review also shows
that the scale and severity of needs in others, such as Kenya, South Sudan and
Mauretania have eased a little, so funding plans have also been revised
accordingly.
“Some
620 humanitarian aid organizations – NGOs and UN agencies – are using the
consolidated appeals to plan their response to crises and monitor the situation
and impact of their work,” according to the mid-year review of global
humanitarian action.
“This
is an extraordinary year. We need US$13 billion if we are to help 73 million
people. That’s an extra $8.6 billion to raise by the end of the year. Millions
of people are in desperate need. We need to support them,” Amos noted on July
17 in Switzerland. Source: UN
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