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Loved ones reconnected after TC Yasa
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Less than 48 hours after TC Yasa unlashed its devastation on northern Fiji, a small, two-person team, consisting of the focal point for the restoring family links (RFL) programme of the Fiji Red Cross Society (FRCS) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Protection Coordinator set out from Suva for the most affected areas of Vanua Levu. Their aim was to restore contact between families that were lost, as mobile networks went down due to the destruction of transmission towers.
“We had set up a hotline at the Fiji Red Cross, where people who did not manage to contact their loved ones in the areas hit by TC Yasa could call and leave the contact details of their loved ones, so that we could go out to the field trying to find them and restore contact. The hotline rang non-stop from the moment the cyclone had passed through, and we knew quickly that there were hundreds of people anxious to know whether their loved ones are s
Fiji: Loved ones reconnected after TC Yasa 24 December, 2020 - 04:10
Country: Fiji Source: Fiji Red Cross Society
Less than 48 hours after TC Yasa unlashed its devastation on northern Fiji, a small, two-person team, consisting of the focal point for the restoring family links (RFL) programme of the Fiji Red Cross Society (FRCS) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Protection Coordinator set out from Suva for the most affected areas of Vanua Levu. Their aim was to restore contact between families that were lost, as mobile networks went down due to the destruction of transmission towers.
“We had set up a hotline at the Fiji Red Cross, where people who did not manage to contact their loved ones in the areas hit by TC Yasa could call and leave the contact details of their loved ones, so that we could go out to the field trying to find them and restore contact. The hotline rang non-stop from the moment the cyclone had passed through, and we kne