South Asia: Cold Wave - Dec 2002 Updates

Total Appeal Target : US$ 750,000 Balance Requested from ACT Network: 738,743.09 Geneva, 6 January 2005 Dear Colleagues, During 2004, the ACT Rapid Response Fund assisted 26 ACT implementing members...

Appeal target: CHF 3,233,438 Period covered: 1 January to 10 June 2003 The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. It is the world's...

Appeal no. 01.54/2003; Appeal target: CHF 13,067,443 (USD 8,945,708 or EUR 8,868,215); Budget revised to CHF 12,862,905 Programme Update No. 1; Period covered: January to June, 2003 The Federation's...

Appeal Target: CHF 3,400,000 (USD 2,446,214 or EUR 2,336,657) Period covered: January - April, 2003 The Federation’s mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of...

Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) Allocated: CHF 50,000 The Situation From 15 December 2002 to early February 2003, a severe cold spell swept Bangladesh, a country with a tropical monsoon climate...

World Vision, in collaboration with Emmanuel Hospital Association, has distributed over 12,000 blankets to people suffering from an extreme cold-wave in the district of Mirzapur and Ballia in the...

ISLAMABAD, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Four days of deadly winter rain and snow sweeping across Pakistan, Afghanistan and India have killed at least 77 people, officials and state media reported on Wednesday. ...

Ref. OCHA/GVA - 2003/0031 OCHA Situation Report No. 4 Bangladesh - Cold Wave First Situation Report issued on 09 January 2003 The following information was provided by the International Federation of...

Extracted from UMCOR Hotline 31 Jan 2003 The death toll from severely cold weather continues to rise across South Asia, where winters are short and mild and millions of poor people live in flimsy...

Geneva, 31 January 2003 - As the death toll from a month-long cold spell continues to rise across South Asia, Action by Churches Together (ACT) International members are distributing blankets,...

Ref: OCHA/GVA - 2003/0019 OCHA Situation Report No. 3 Bangladesh - Cold Wave 24 January 2003 The following information was provided by the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent...

LUCKNOW, India, Jan 23 (Reuters) - South Asia's bitter cold wave killed at least 60 more people overnight, raising the toll from near-freezing temperatures sweeping the region since Christmas to...

by Bijoy Patro and Pooja Saxena in Delhi and Indira Kulenovic in Dhaka The coldest winter in South Asia for decades has claimed the lives of more than 1,600 people, most of them poor and homeless, in...

LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) - The death toll from South Asia's coldest winter in decades climbed to 1,500 overnight, with no respite from near-freezing temperatures forecast for the next few days in the...

Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) Allocated: CHF 50,000 This Information Bulletin is being issued in support of needs described below. A DREF allocation of CHF 50,000 has been made by the...

As the month long cold wave that is sweeping across Northern India claims more victims each day, World Vision India is responding by providing blankets, food through soup kitchens and firewood for...

NEW DELHI, Jan 21 (Reuters) - South Asia's worst winter in decades claimed 43 more lives overnight, taking the death toll to 1,443 as the region's homeless fight to survive near-freezing...

A grant from FHI will enable the New India Evangelistic Association (NIEA) to distribute blankets and clothes to patients visiting eight mobile medical camps, scheduled over the next few weeks in...