India floods emergency appeal launched

Plan has launched an emergency appeal for US$1,000,000 to support thousands of families affected by the devastating floods in India’s Uttarakhand state.

According to reports, the death toll is expected to exceed 5,000, with 680 people confirmed dead, while 90,000 have been rescued.

Plan is already providing emergency relief to affected children and adults – including food, first aid kits, blankets and other items.

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Flood response in India and Nepal

Plan teams are moving quickly to help communities hit by disastrous monsoon flooding in Nepal and the north of India.

Continuous heavy rainfall in the region over the past few days has triggered flash floods and landslides.

Current estimates put the number of people affected in the Uttarkhand province of India at over 130,000. In Nepal, it is thought that 2,500 families have been forced to leave their homes and many thousands more are affected by flood damage and blocked roads.

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Oversvømmelser i Indien

Mindst 44 børn og voksne er blevet dræbt – og lige så mange såret – efter regionen Uttarakhand i det nordlige Indien er blevet ramt af voldsomme oversvømmelser. 350 bygninger er kollapsede, og 450 veje er blokerede. Der mangler lige nu mad og vand, og tusindvis af familier er blevet hjemløse.

Plan arbejder i området, hvor der bor 3.500 fadderbarn. Sammen med vores lokale partnere hjælper vi de berørte familier. Vi følger situationen tæt og kontakter dig, hvis vi får besked om, at dit fadderbarn i Uttarakhand er berørt.

Floods Leave a Trail of Destruction in Homabay

An estimated 1,500 people and 2,000 students are in need of emergency support after raging floods hit south west Kenya.

Two months ago, residents of Homabay County could never have predicted that the rainy season, which allows them to plant crops and feed their animals, would cause so much destruction.

However, as the rains intensified, they swelled streams and rivers, creating pounding flood waters that swept away people, animals, crops, and buildings.

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Supporting Residents is Crucial to Restoring Livelihoods and Social Infrastructure in Mozambique

Life seems to be returning to normalcy in the flood-hit town of Chókwè. Electricity and water have been restored and the community is cleaning up in the aftermath of the worst floods in 13 years.

Despite these recovery efforts, Chókwè residents are still faced with the reality of dwindling food stocks, disease outbreaks, and the cost of rebuilding destroyed social and economic infrastructure.

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Children in Mozambique go back to school after floods

At Nkonne Primary School near the town of Chókwè in Mozambique, books and desks were destroyed by the recent floods which forced the school to close down for two weeks. Children and teachers have now returned and are trying to see what can be salvaged. Plan is helping the school get back to normal by providing 'learners kits' with exercise books and other items the children need.

Widespread flooding has left a trail of destruction in Mozambique. The floods, the heaviest since 2000, have submerged towns in Gaza Province, destroying roads, bridges, schools and hospitals.

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Children's lives on hold after flooding in Indonesia

Severe flooding affecting more than 90,000 people in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, left many of them exposed to the cold conditions. Relief supplies are now being distributed. “Our children did not get cold again last night,” said Sukaesih, from Rawabuaya in West Jakarta, who has a six-year-old son.

When the floods struck on Wednesday, Sukaesih and her neighbours sought shelter in a shop building before moving to a nearby camp for people forced from their homes by the flooding.

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New Plan project to aid the Dominican Republic after Hurricane Sandy

In the weeks following Hurricane Sandy, the Dominican Republic, most notably the Azura province, has been recovering from significant flood damage. In addition to the flooding, the Public Health department has also reported a significant spike in dengue fever, eye infections, and leptospirosis that can be attributed to poor sanitation. 

On November 14th, Plan received confirmation from the European Commission Humanitarian Aid (ECHO) that a recovery project has been approved that will aid affected families, rehabilitate ECCD centers, and will train Plan staff in disease and abuse detection, community-wide public health promotion, and small-scale mitigation work.


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Oversvømmelser i Haiti

Hundredvis af børn og deres familier er flygtet fra deres hjem og ejendele i Haiti. Det skyldes oversvømmelser, der kom i hælene på den voldsomme orkan ”Sandy”, som hærgede den amerikanske østkyst for to uger siden.

Haiti frygter nu mangel på mad og vand, mens kolerainfektioner og dårlig hygiejne truer landet. Plan er til stede i de berørte områder og har uddelt hygiejnesæt, maddresser og tæpper til de fordrevne familier. Vi er ligeledes til stede i krisecentrene, hvor vi sørger for psykologisk støtte til børnene.

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Oversvømmelser i Pakistan

5 millioner børn og familier er lige nu påvirket af de alvorlige oversvømmelser, som ramte Pakistan i september som følge af monsunregnen. Værst ramt er Sindh-, Punjab- og Balochistan-provinserne.

De altødelæggende vandmasser har kostet 370 mennesker livet og såret cirka 1.200 børn og voksne.

91 % af de ramte familier har reduceret antallet af måltider pr. dag, og 300.000 mennesker har brug for ekstra ernæring.

Mere end 3.200 skoler er ødelagte, mens 550 skoler nu bebos af indbyggere, der har været tvunget til at forlade hus og hjem. Dermed går dette års monsunregn ud over hele 500.000 skoleelever.


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Flooding in Cameroon may result in child-brides-in-waiting

The North and Far North of Cameroon is currently facing one of the worst flood disasters the area has ever known. Rising flood waters have left an estimated 67,000 people displaced. This flooding has destroyed homes, cattle, crops, and has disrupted entire households.

In the Far North, Plan has been providing displaced families with emergency assistance. But a far more insidious future problem awaits: child marriage.

It takes nearly five hours or over 155 miles to travel from the district capital of Maroua to Kai-Kai, a village close to the Chad border. However, the last 31 miles consists of a dirt road that is half-submerged by the rising flood waters. Families from surrounding villages are camped out inside of a Catholic primary school. Overcrowded, squalid conditions have made worse by continuous rainfall. With the worsening conditions, we are concerned that many girls will soon be in danger of becoming child brides. 


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35 tons of aid flown to Niger for flood-affected children

Emergency relief supplies have landed in Niger for victims of severe floods, which struck the regions of Tillabéri and Dosso.

The supplies, donated to Plan by Irish Aid in Dublin, include tents, tarpaulins, jerry cans, mosquito nets and blankets. It is part of the continued commitment by the Irish government to the people most in need in crisis-hit Niger.

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Urgent Funding Needed for Emergency Response Programs after Severe Flooding in Cameroon

Urgent support is needed to aid the emergency response programs operating in Cameroon after severe floods have swept away homes and displaced more than 67,000 people.

In the Far North region, the Logone River has flooded and more than 20,000 of its citizens have been left homeless. Local authorities had attempted to open Maga Dam's evacuation and overflow outlets to prevent further flooding. However, two of the dykes have since collapsed and the town of Maga has been flooded.

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Relief kits delivered to flood-hit families in Myanmar

Plan is distributing relief kits to 3,375 people in 4 flood-affected villages of Kyaung Gone Township in Myanmar.

Monsoon flooding in August affected 70,000 people along the Ayeyarwady Delta, forcing 467 schools to close.

An assessment conducted by Plan and local partner Swanyee Development Foundation identified a need for non-food items among families who had been unable to evacuate from the villages of Pauk Ngu, Doe Tan, Tet Seik, Laye Kwellaher.

Plan’s relief kits comprise of hygiene items, mosquito nets, blankets, and clothes for children. Although the flood water has now receded in affected areas, muddy conditions are slowing down all community activities and access remains difficult as villages can only be reached by river.

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Sådan hjælper Plan i Niger

Niger i Vestafrika har som bekendt været ramt af fire alvorlige kriser i løbet af få måneder: Sult, flygtningekrise, kolera-udbrud og oversvømmelser. Plan er konstant til stede og hjælper børnene og deres familier.

Nigers præsident besøgte forleden en uddelingspost, som hjælper ofrene for de seneste oversvømmelser. Præsidenten var taknemmelig for Plans støtte til lokalsamfundene.

Nedenfor kan du læse nogle af vores resultater:

· Plan har uddelt 2.798 tons mad til 65.000 mennesker, som er påvirket af fødevarekrisen.

· 48 kornbanker er blevet fyldt, så der er mad til befolkningen.

· Vi har forberedt skolemad til skolestart i oktober, så 69 skoler med 6.830 elever får mad. 200 tons mad vil blive uddelt inden for de næste to uger.

· Vi administrerer fortsat flygtningelejren Tabareybarey, hvor 8.494 mennesker bor.

· Plan forstætter med at drive to skoler - én i Tabareybarey flygtningelejren og én i Mangaize. Her tilbydes flygtningebørnene undervisning og børnebeskyttelse.

Niger farmer’s plea: “Please help us, to help ourselves”

Moumouni Hamadou has had a rough year. In fact, the last few years have been the roughest of his 45 years in this remote Nigerien village in Dosso Region.

Since last October, he and his family of eight have survived drinking one cup of porridge per day. That’s all the food they could afford.

In recent years, there has been erratic rainfall leading to poor harvests. They had to dip into their savings to buy grain on the market. When they could finally afford it, the merchants had increased the prices. The regular price of a 220 lbs bag of maize was about $30, but when the lean season started the price doubled.

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Niger oversvømmelser: en drengs historie

Ten-year-old Mahe lives in a rural village in the region of Dosso, about 140km southwest of the capital Niamey.

Heavy rains, which flooded most of Dosso last week, destroyed thousands of homes - including that of Mahe and his family.

“We were living a happy and peaceful life when the rain burst into our village at dawn and destroyed our home, our clothes, our food and all our possessions,“ says Mahe.

His father, a farmer, also lost all his crops in the flood. This is a double blow because they were already affected by drought last year leading to poor harvests. The families here count among the 18 million affected by the food crisis in the Sahel region.

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Voldsomme oversvømmelser i Haiti

Mere end 14.300 børn og familier er blevet evakueret i Haiti. Det sker, efter den tropiske storm Isaac natten til lørdag ramte landet og forvoldte alvorlige oversvømmelser.

400.000 mennesker bor stadig i midlertidige lejre efter det altødelæggende jordskælv i 2010. Det er disse mennesker, som de nuværende oversvømmelser går værst ud over.

Plan sætter ind med livsreddende tiltag til de ramte familier. Igen er børnene de mest udsatte. Vi sørger for rent vand, mad og beskyttelse. Samtidig ansætter vi specialister, der kan vurdere børnenes behov efter den massive storm.

Niger ramt af endnu en krise

Fjerde krise på få måneder har ramt børnene og deres familier i Niger. Først var der fødevarekrise, så flygtningekrise, dernæst kolera-udbrud og nu oversvømmelser. På blot et døgn faldt det, der svarer til et halvt års regn i den nigerianske Dosso Region, som ligger 140 km fra hovedstaden og er på størrelse med Belgien. Oversvømmelserne har gjort hele 75.000 børn og voksne hjemløse. De foreløbige resultater viser, at 1.273 landbrug og 1.243 hjem er totalt ødelagte, mens næsten 1.000 hjem er beskadigede. Nødsituationen har ramt børnene hårdest: "Der er tale om en børnekatastrofe, idet 8 ud af 10 påvirkede er børn, som har brug for tag over hovedet, tøj og mad," siger Plans landedirektør i Niger, Rheal Drisdelle. Plan var en af de første internationale NGO'er til stede. Vi har sørget for, at hvert hushold har fået et imprægneret myggenet, et tæppe samt ris og olie til minimum to uger. Tusindvis af hjemløse børn og familier har søgt beskyttelse på skoler, og det skaber et nyt problem. For om få uger starter skolen efter sommerferien, og hvis de hjemløse ikke er blevet flyttet til et andet sted, kan børnene ikke begynde i skole. Plan er derfor i fuld gang med at søge midler, så de hjemløse kan blive henvist til et nyt sted, og skolerne atter kan blive klar til det nye skoleår. I weekenden blev Nigers hovedstad, Niamey, tilmed ramt af voldsomme oversvømmelser. Også her måtte tusindvis af mennesker forlade fra deres hjem og ejendele. Plan holder i nærmeste fremtid møde med repræsentanter fra regeringen for at blive orienteret om situationens omfang.

Oversvømmelser i Filippinerne

To millioner børn og familier er lige nu ramt af voldsomme oversvømmelser i Manila, Filippinerne. 16 mennesker har mistet livet, mens syv personer fortsat er savnet.

Katastrofen skyldes, at hovedstaden inden for 48 timer er ramt af samme regnmængde, som normalt falder på en måned. Floder er løbet over deres bredder, og hele kvarterer står lige nu under vand.

Børn og deres familier mangler mad, vand og tøj. Plan er til stede. Vi følger situationen tæt og er klar til at hjælpe. Sidste år nåede vi ud til tusindvis af børn og voksne, da Filippinerne blev ramt af en omfattende tyfon.

Vandet er heldigvis begyndt at trække sig tilbage fra Manila, og varslinger om yderligere regn er ligeledes trukket tilbage.