UNHCR humanitarian airlift to help the displaced Pakistanis

martes, 19 de mayo de 2009

A May 18, 2009 are now 1.7 million people displaced as a result of fighting between the Pakistani army and Taliban insurgents, who desperately needed humanitarian aid.
UNHCR humanitarian supplies are loaded on the plane that departed from Dubai to Pakistan. UNHCR / A. Rummery.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 18, 2009 (UNHCR) - A Boeing 747 with 120 tons of humanitarian UNHCR, for people who have fled fighting in northwestern Pakistan, landed in Islamabad on Tuesday to 15: 15 pm local time.
The plane chartered by UNHCR transported 11,000 mosquito nets, 14,000 plastic tarpaulins for emergency shelter, 1,500 rolls of plastic tarp to build walls and private spaces in the camps and moving from our two stores in central Dubai. New supplies were brought to the warehouses of UNHCR in Peshawar, for distribution to the various camps housing displaced persons in the Frontier Province Noroeste.La National Authority for Disaster Management (NDMA stands for English) has provided emergency and this flight has provided 10,000 additional tents to UNHCR for emergency operation.

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