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SEPTEMBER 2006
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UMCOR HOTLINE
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ARTICLES:
• Lebanon: Helping Displaced Families
• Palestine: Life in Gaza Remains Difficult
• Sir Lanka: Emergency Relief
• China: Food Relief |
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Lebanon:
Helping Displaced Families
Aid arrives in Beirut. It is now more difficult to deliver supplies to Beirut after the main highway leading to the city was bombed. Hege Opseth, NCA-ACT International |
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UMCOR partners in Lebanon are assisting displaced families with basic needs in conflicted areas. The International Orthodox Christian Charities, an UMCOR partner through the ACT International alliance, is serving families seeking refuge in public schools. They're delivering food and other necessities to 892 families staying in the classrooms.
The IOCC food parcels are sufficient to support a family for one month. Additionally, Church World Service is delivering hygiene kits, water containers, and blankets to provide for these families in need.
Your gifts to UMCOR Advance #601740, Middle East Emergency, Lebanon, also help provide for families forced to flee their homes by the recent violence in Lebanon. |
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Palestine:
Life in Gaza Remains Difficult
Life in Gaza continues to be difficult. UMCOR's partners are working to ensure a better future for these girls and thousands others. |
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza deepens each day as conflict in the region continues. Electrical and water shortages add to the concerns of the Palestinians. Since Gaza's only electrical station was bombed in June the region has made do with half its power supply, hampering hospital services and causing medicine and food shortages.
UMCOR supports the work of Action by Churches Together member agencies that are bringing much-needed relief to the area. You can contribute to these important efforts by giving to UMCOR Advance #601740, Middle East Emergency, Palestine. |
Sri Lanka: Emergency Relief
A Sri Lankan man talks to UMCOR workers about his community. Kristin Sachen/UMCOR |
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A resurgence of violence in northeastern Sri Lanka has displaced some 30,000 people, many of them from the town of Muttur, where UMCOR works. UMCOR personnel, based in nearby Trincomalee, are helping the displaced and the wounded receive the help they need. UMCOR is working closely with the Methodist Church of Sri Lanka in all of its relief efforts, providing food and medical assistance to civilians affected by the fighting.
When violence broke out in Sri Lanka in early August, UMCOR was already on the ground reconstructing homes and infrastructure following the tsunami. UMCOR personnel are first-hand witnesses to the violence that erupted in the area and set aside their development work to deliver aid to the tens of thousands of civilians fleeing the area to the town of Kantale, some 37 miles away.
Your gifts to UMCOR Advance #982450, International Disaster Response, Sri Lanka, will provide relief for thousands in northeastern Sri Lanka. |
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China:
Food Relief
A man stands at what remains of his house after Tropical Storm Bilis. Amity Foundation-ACT International |
| In mid-July Tropical Storm Bilis brought serious flooding and landslides in southern China. More than 3 million people had to be relocated as a result. UMCOR is working with Amity Foundation, a local partner, to provide food, shelter, and medical assistance to 3,000 families left homeless by the floods and mudslides. Amity is also developing plans to provide long-term relief and rehabilitation after the widespread devastation wrought by Bilis. |
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