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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.