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FACTS &FIGURES

Programme Statistics:
January to March 2013

✦ Square Metres Cleared: 107,708

✦ Number of Villages worked in: 48

✦ Number of EOD Response Tasks: 390

✦ Number of household surveys: 7,119

✦ Number of UXO destroyed: 5,544

Organizational development is crucial for National Societies to deliver effective programmes and projects. In order to expand the breadth, depth and quality of its services to millions of Vietnamese, the Vietnam Red Cross Society is working to build its capacity to be a strong and effective National Society.

As set out in the IFRC’s Strategy 2020, capacity building is one of the Vietnam Red Cross Society’s strategic priorities and various partner National Societies, including the American Red Cross, are supporting the Vietnam Red Cross Society to implement this.

Save the Children and Prudence Fund in Vietnam recently launched a project worth £ 132,000 to reduce disaster risk for people in two provinces of Tien Giang and Dong Thap. Around 3,500 children and 14,000 community members in high disaster risk areas will be able to receive training in lifesaving skills and knowledge about preparing for disasters.

HANOI, Vietnam – With one of the longest continuous coastlines in the world, Vietnam is at risk of a wide-range of coastal hazards. From tropical cyclones to tsunamis, coastal communities require more disaster preparedness than ever as the country is experiencing adverse effects of climate change.

To achieve more resilient coastal communities, there is a need to build capacity at national and local levels on how to reduce disaster risks. ADPC is currently working to customize training curriculum to meet the needs of the most vulnerable to such hazards.

Period covered by this final report: 3 April 2012 to 31 January 2013.

Appeal target (current): CHF 758,416.

Appeal coverage: To date, the appeal is 82 per cent covered.

Appeal history:

• This emergency appeal was initially launched on 3 April 2012 for CHF 758,416 to assist 752,255 beneficiaries, including 196,200 direct beneficiaries, for a period of nine months.

Strong winds and heavy rain on 23/24 April hit the provinces of Tuyen Quang and Lao Cai, northern Vietnam, as well as the province of Ha Tinh, central Vietnam.

According to local media, as of 25 April, in Ha Tinh, there have been 1 death and 2 injuries attributed to the severe weather, and 1000 houses and 100 hectares of crop damaged.

As of 26 April, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment reports 5 houses collapsed and over 600 buildings and hundreds of hectares of crops damaged in Lao Cai province

04/17/2013 05:23 GMT

HANOI, April 17, 2013 (AFP) - Two children were killed and six others seriously injured after a grenade left over from the Vietnam War exploded while they were playing with it, police said Wednesday.

The children, all 11-year-old classmates, were walking home from school in southern Dak Nong province on Tuesday when they discovered the shell, believed to be from a US-made M79 grenade launcher, a police officer told AFP.

Hoang Thi Hai Ly has been working as a deminer for the last 12 of her 43 years, and knows as well as anyone the damage that landmines cause.

Her family lives in Charlie One hill, which had been an American military base in the Gio Linh district of Quang Tri province during the Vietnam War. Here, she shared a small one-room house with her sick husband, their year-old child, her father and her brother's family. It was the only house in the area and it was surrounded by thousands of mines and cluster munitions.

On 16 March, leaders of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), World Bank (WB) in Vietnam and the Ben Tre Provincial People's Committee have made a survey on prevention of climate change in Ben Tre province. Ms. Victoria Kwakwa, Director of World Bank in Vietnam said, after the survey with the delegates of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Ben Tre Provincial People's Committee, she had seen the achievements as well as challenges of the province in the fight against climate change and promised to support for this work.