UNICEF
Humanitarian Relief in the Afghan Region
Number 11
14 December 2001


>From Afghanistan

- Kabul

1. 5, 000 tarpaulin, 1,500 baby kits, 500 safe delivery kits and
approximately 7,200 clothing items were dispatched from Kabul to the
Habitat office in Bamiyan on 10 December. The tarpaulin will benefit 2,500
IDP families in Western Bamiyan and the other items target approximately
9,000 IDP and returnee families in Bamiyan.

2. 12,000 clothing items, 500 family kits, 2,500 pairs of shoes, 9,000
pieces of children clothing and 100 boxes of blankets were dispatched from
Kabul to Panjao through the OXFAM office on 6 Dec. The aid will benefit
9,000 children, 3,000 women and 500 families in Hazarajat, distributed
through OXFAM- supported winter schools. Consignment includes in-kind
donations from German NGO Aktion Kleine Prinz.

3. 4,600 clothing items, 14,000 pairs of boots and 500 family kits were
dispatched from Kabul to Gulbahar through IAM for the ACTED warehouse. The
items will benefit 3,744 IDP families in Panjshir, including approximately
12,000 children.


- Kandahar

 1,592/25 kgs. bags of UNIMIX, 8,300 liters vegetable oil and various
feeding equipment was delivered to the NGO ISRA on 11 December, for the
supplementary feeding of children under age-five and pregnant mothers in
the IDP camps of Spin Boldak. The UNIMIX and the oil will cover 5,200
children under age- five, and 1,000 pregnant women in the three IDP camps
for one month.


- Faizabad

UNICEF-Faizabad will provide Basic Health Kits to International Medical
Corps for their activities in some districts of Takhar.


>From Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan

- Distribution of the first of two shipments of American Red Cross-funded
clothing items and footwear was completed on 12 December at Karoul
settlement on Island #9. The distribution of children's boots was done
along with the second round of immunisations by MERLIN.

- 40 tons of corn-soy blend UNIMIX and approximately 24,000 USAID-donated
blankets arrived in Termez, Uzbekistan on 13 December and were
pre-positioned for delivery inside Afghanistan.


distributed by
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