Relief Assessment Begins
In response to the crisis in North Kivu, FH is looking into what gaps there are in humanitarian aid. At least 250,000 have been displaced in this region due to armed conflict between various rebel groups and the Congolese national army in the last few months. Living conditions of people in the displaced camps are marked with the lack of sanitation, food items and education structures. In Rutshuru area alone over 85% of schools have shut down due to insecurity.
FH is sending a relief assessment team to Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu today to determine a potential relief response.
Sign up for email updates to track with the team and check back often to see what we are seeing.
To read the latest from the crisis and sign up, click here:
http://www.fhglobal.org/explore/crisis_in_congo.php
FH is sending a relief assessment team to Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu today to determine a potential relief response.
Sign up for email updates to track with the team and check back often to see what we are seeing.
To read the latest from the crisis and sign up, click here:
http://www.fhglobal.org/explore/crisis_in_congo.php
posted by Food For The Hungry at
12:36 AM
2 Comments:
I've heard that the crisis is also affecting South Kivu. Is that true?
The crisis is not spilling over into South Kivu in the same way that it is affecting North Kivu. The concentration of armed conflict is taking place solely in N. Kivu. Of course economically S. Kivu is affected. But the displacement remains in N. Kivu as well as the majority of violence.
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