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Rajabgul Rasulova, 42, with the food rations that will enable her to celebrate New Year

UN food distribution brings New Year cheer to Tajik widow

30 December 2009
The United Nations distributed enough food to feed 250,000 people for two months in impoverished Tajikistan last month, but it is the smile in the eyes of a 42-year-old widow on a cold winter’s day in the mountains that puts a face on the statistics ahead of the important New Year’s Day celebration.
An overcrowded classroom at a school in Uyali village, Tajikistan, hit by mudflows earlier in 2009

Another $6 million needed to help Tajikistan’s flood victims, UN says

1 December 2009
As temperatures plummet below zero degrees Celsius in southern Tajikistan, the United Nations humanitarian wing today called for $6 million to help victims whose homes were destroyed during spring flooding and mudflows earlier this year.

UN-backed vaccination scheme in Tajikistan achieves almost universal success

21 October 2009
Nearly every Tajik child between the ages of one and 14 received vaccinations against measles and rubella during a two-week, United Nations-backed campaign this month to fight the spread of the diseases in the mountainous Central Asian country.
UN- backed campaign to vaccinate against measles and rubella in Tajikistan targets children aged one to 14 years

Tajikistan: UN backs campaign to vaccinate against measles and rubella

7 October 2009
Two United Nations agencies are backing a two-week nationwide campaign by health authorities in Tajikistan to immunize an estimated 2.5 million children in the mountainous, landlocked Central Asian country against measles and rubella.
A woman poses with her small children in Kaliab Valley, Tajikistan

Severe food insecurity threatens nearly 400,000 people in Tajikistan – UN

23 September 2009
Some 390,000 people in Tajikistan, about 9 per cent of the rural population, face severe food insecurity due to both chronic vulnerability and the impact of this spring’s floods, the United Nations reported today.
Thousands of people in Tajikistan have been relocated to temporary camps because of flooding

Continued flooding leaves thousands of Tajiks in need of urgent aid, UN reports

2 June 2009
Aid agencies in Tajikistan are appealing for $1.3 million to help some 12,000 people in urgent need of assistance after floods inundated more than half the Central Asian nation’s districts, the United Nations reported today.

As half a million face hunger, aid to Tajikistan underfunded – UN

11 March 2008
More than half a million Tajiks could soon face food shortages as a severe winter turns to flooding and an appeal for $25 million remains only one-quarter funded, a United Nations spokesperson said today.

UN agency seeks $8 million to feed Tajiks hit by record low temperatures

22 February 2008
The harshest winter Tajikistan has seen in decades has prompted a food and energy crisis leaving some 200,000 in need of emergency aid, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today as it appealed for $8.3 million to help those affected.

UN appeals for $25 million to aid Tajiks facing harshest winter in decades

18 February 2008
The United Nations, together with the Government of Tajikistan, today appealed for $25 million to help humanitarian agencies provide adequate food, water, heat and health care during the most severe winter the country has seen in nearly three decades.

As temperatures dip to record lows in Tajikistan, UN rushes in aid

1 February 2008
With temperatures in Tajikistan dipping to their lowest levels in a quarter of a century, the United Nations is rushing emergency supplies to over 1,000 desperate refugees there.