GOAL responding in Pakistan
GOAL's Emergency Coordinator, Brian Casey, speaks with some of the victims of the floods in Sindh Province, Pakistan, where GOAL is helping to deliver aid
GOAL is established in Sindh province in Pakistan and is providing life-saving support to some of the millions of people most affected by the devastating floods.
We are working with local NGO HANDS to support the emergency evacuation of the displaced populations by road and boat and providing water and food to some of those most in need of assistance.
Over the coming days, GOAL plans to continue this work and distribute crucial non-food items such as clothes, blankets, mosquito nets, cooking equipment and plastic sheeting for emergency shelter, while other assistance will be provided in the form of sanitation and medical support.
Up to three million people have been affected in Sindh province alone since the disaster began. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the floods in the province, the majority of them in the north, where GOAL is working.
More than 1,600 people have been confirmed dead across the country. Between 15 and 20 million people have been affected in total and four million have been made homeless.
Click here to read a first-hand account of the devastation in Pakistan from GOAL's Emergency Co-ordinator, Brian Casey.
To donate online please click here.
GOAL ramps up aid
efforts in Niger
GOAL's Country Director in Niger, Arjan Ottens, at a
GOAL-supported therapeutic feeding center to treat
those suffering from severe malnutrition
GOAL has expanded its emergency relief efforts in Niger, which is facing into a food and nutritional crisis that has already left three million people on the verge of starvation.
We are now supporting more than 20,000 of the most vulnerable people living in the worst affected areas by providing them with unconditional cash contributions to help them combat the effects of the poor harvest and avoid selling off their livestock in an effort to survive the current lean season.
We are also supporting walk-in therapeutic and supplementary feeding centers to treat severe and moderate malnutrition in the Mirriah department, Zinder region, in the south of the country.
GOAL is supporting the expansion of a 90-bed in-patient therapeutic feeding center to 120 beds at Mirriah Departmental Hospital, and is providing vital equipment to help increase capacity.
If you wish to donate to GOAL’s work in Niger, please click here.
TV3 news are currently running a series of reports that are focusing on the crisis in Niger. Click here to watch their first report and learn more about the emergency in Niger and how GOAL is responding.
TV3 will broadcast follow-up reports on Tuesday and Wednesday, August 17th and 18th, on their 5.30pm news bulletins. Click here to watch the reports live online.
GOAL builds 1,000 houses
for poor in Uganda
Paul Kimbugwe gets a hug from older brother Richard outside their new GOAL house in Masaka, Southern Uganda. Both of the boys’ parents succumbed to AIDS and they had been living in the hut in the background. Their new home provides shelter, warmth, water and sanitation facilities.
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