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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.