| Media Statement, 8th August 2006
A GOAL assessment team is responding to devastating
floods in Dire Dawa in eastern Ethiopia. The floods, which swept
through the town in the early hours of Sunday morning, are thought
to have killed 200 people and affected a further 10,000, thousands
of whom are now homeless; 300 people are still missing.
GOAL has committed US $20,000 to the victims of the
disaster and will shortly be distributing 1,000 blankets, soap,
sugar and five and a half metric tones of high-protein biscuits
to the 10,000 affected people who are in need of urgent assistance.
GOAL’s assessment team has also assisted the
local government with registration of and bread distributions to
affected families.
Sunday’s floods in Dire Dawa follow the rescue,
last week, of 15,000 farmers from other flooded lowland villages
in Ethiopia.
GOAL’s emergency response programme in Ethiopia
is majority-funded by the Office of United States Foreign Disaster
Assistance under the US Agency for International Development (OFDA/USAID).
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