quake

Special Envoy George Bush, former US President

Basic services still lacking for too many after last year’s Pakistan quake, says UN envoy

6 October 2006
A year after an earthquake devastated northern Pakistan, killing more than 73,000 people, the United Nations envoy for the recovery effort said a funding shortfall means too many of the estimated 3.5 million people affected by the quake still lack access to basic services such as clean water, sanitation and housing.
Pakistan's quake survivors who cannot go home

With most Pakistan quake survivors now home, UN hands tasks to local authorities

31 August 2006
Now that hundreds of thousands of survivors of last October’s deadly earthquake in Pakistan have returned home from temporary camps, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today closed the offices in the region, handing over full responsibility for managing remaining relief camps to local authorities on schedule.

UN rushes emergency aid to Tajikistan after earthquakes affect thousands in the south

1 August 2006
The United Nations is providing $20,000 in emergency assistance to Tajikistan after earthquakes hit two southern districts of the Central Asian country at the weekend, affecting around 9,000 people and damaging infrastructure in a region close to the border with Afghanistan.
Families in village near Muzaffarabad

UN assists effort to relocate almost 4,000 survivors from last year’s Pakistan earthquake

24 July 2006
Almost 4,000 survivors from last year’s earthquake in northern Pakistan have been moved to relief camps from villages at risk of landslides as heavy monsoon rains lash the quake-affected areas, the United Nations relief agency said today, highlighting an intense, month-long UN-assisted relocation effort.

UN food agency provides aid after earthquake and tsunami kill hundreds in Indonesia

18 July 2006
Following yesterday’s deadly earthquake and resulting tsunami that hit Indonesia’s island of Java, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is today sending two truckloads of food assistance to the survivors, as estimates of the number dead, injured and missing in the disaster climbed toward 600, with 30,000 others displaced.

UN teams travel to areas hit by earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia as death toll mounts

17 July 2006
United Nations aid teams joined Indonesian Government and non-governmental efforts in assisting survivors on the island of Java today after an earthquake killed at least 37 people, with 60 more missing after a tsunami triggered by the quake hit the coast.

UNICEF announces $150 million school and health centre plan for Pakistan quake areas

11 July 2006
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today launched a $150 million healthcare and education recovery plan for areas affected by last year’s earthquake in Pakistan, which killed over 73,000 people, left millions homeless and destroyed or damaged almost 10,000 schools and three quarters of all health facilities.
Quake-damaged canal structure

UN scales back its appeal for Indonesian quake relief, but still faces huge shortfall

7 July 2006
The United Nations has scaled back its $103-million relief appeal for the Indonesian earthquake in May by 20 per cent but is still facing a huge shortfall of over $60 million to aid hundreds of thousands of victims of the disaster which killed more than 6,000 people and displaced at least 200,000 others.

Funds running low to help Indonesian quake victims, UN warns

23 June 2006
Just one month after a devastating earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Java, money is running out for essential food, water and education projects to reach the people worst hit by the disaster, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said today.
WFP distributes food aid to the affected

Indonesia: from food and vaccinations to saving historic sites, UN steps up quake aid

7 June 2006
United Nations agencies are stepping up aid to Indonesian earthquake victims with plans to feed 100,000 people for the next two months, an emergency immunization campaign for 1.3 million others and efforts to preserve historic sites and boost education in the Yogyakarta area where 6,000 people died and at least 200,000 more lost their homes.