Potable water for villages in Southern Ethiopia
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In remote parts of southern Ethiopia, much of the population lacks access to life’s most critical resource: potable water. Streams, rivers, and reservoirs are the primary source of drinking water in these communities, but sources are often of poor quality and require extensive treatment before it is safe for consumption. Thanks to EU humanitarian funding, People in Need (PIN) has rehabilitated shallow wells to give access to clean water to the most vulnerable communities.
Although the situation is improving, many people in remote indigenous communities still lack access to safe drinking water. The limited availability of fresh water and high delivery costs to rural areas are some of the factors that keep communities from progressing.
Irish aid agency GOAL receives EU funding to expand its support programme to refugee communities in Turkey
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15 Apr 2021
Humanitarian Aid agency, GOAL, has expanded its protection work in Turkey supporting vulnerable nomadic and semi-nomadic refugees and migrant seasonal agriculture workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
With €2.5 million continued funding from European Union Humanitarian Aid, the project titled ‘Facilitating Marginalized and Vulnerable Populations Access to Services (LINK)’ will reach more than 15,000 people by September 2021, starting with offering services to vulnerable people in Mersin Province.
During the first phase of the LINK project from December 2018 to August 2020, GOAL supported 25,910 refugees in Ankara, and 14,323 migrant seasonal agricultural workers and refugees from nomadic backgrounds in Adana, Şanlıurfa and Gaziantep with individual protection assistance, community-based outreach, counselling, referrals, vouchers, and in-kind assis
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Save the Children Philippines, in a statement issued Monday, April 12, said that efforts that would ensure the safety and protection of children should be in place as local authorities and humanitarian actors expect “prolonged struggle and further displacement” in the region.
“We are deeply concerned about the present situation of the children in Maguindanao who have to endure fear and displacement once again at the most unfortunate time of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease],” said Save the Children Philippines Chief Executive Officer Alberto T. Muyot.
Save the Children Philippines noted that more than 60,000 individuals have been displaced – including an estimated 27,500 children (around 13,640 are girls and 13,860 are boys) – as a result of the conflict between government troops and extremist groups on March 18 in the Municipality of Datu Saudi Ampatuan.
Save the Children urges unhampered protection for children as Maguindanao conflict seen to intensify
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12 Apr 2021
Save the Children Philippines has called for continuous and concerted response on the protection of children and their families who have been affected by the ongoing armed conflict in Maguindanao as local authorities and humanitarian actors expect prolonged struggle and further displacement in the region.
More than 60,000 individuals have been displaced, including an estimated 27,500 children (around 13,640 are girls and 13,860 are boys), as a result of the conflict between government troops and extremist groups on 18 March in the Municipality of Datu Saudi Ampatuan, which has since spilled over in the neighboring towns of Mamasapano, Shariff Saydona Mustapha, Shariff Aguak, Datu Salibo, Datu Unsay, and Datu Hoffer Ampatuan.
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