please see SOS website for original article w/pictures. Haruna. I encourage  
you to support the work of SOS around the world. There may be one near  you.
 
 
Expansion of emergency relief work in eastern Nepal  
 
     
25/08/2008 - Following the bursting of the dam on the Koshi river in  the 
Sunsari district of Nepal, thousands of people are still just  receiving 
temporary aid. SOS Children's Villages Nepal is focusing on  caring for children and 
providing basic medical assistance in two  camps.

 
      SOS Children's Villages  guarantees basic medial care for families 
affected - Photo: SOS  Archives 
The bursting of a dam in eastern Nepal led to serious flooding of whole  
villages. Thousands of villagers are staying in temporary camps that have been  
set up in schools and temples. Last week, SOS Children's Villages Nepal set up a 
 basic medical centre for around 3,600 people who are living on the grounds 
of  Bhagawati High School. 

Another emergency relief programme has also been  launched in Balaha, where 
around 560 flood victims (250 of whom are children  under the age of twelve) 
are temporarily being housed at Sarada Higher Secondary  School. SOS Children's 
Villages has, in agreement with the local authorities and  the local relief 
committee, pledged to provide full care for homeless families  and, in doing so, 
is mainly focusing on children. 

Each day, the children  can take part in different activities that are 
organised at the kindergarten and  in a tent on the playground. A trauma centre will 
also be opened, which will  help both children and adults to come to terms 
with what they have experienced.  As in Bhagawati, basic medical care in also 
being provided in Balaha and  patients are being transferred to the local 
hospital when necessary. 

 Many children are in shock  following the disaster - Photo: SOS  Archives 
SOS Children's Villages Nepal is putting mattresses in all the classrooms,  
and is repairing electricity supplies and sanitary facilities. The children are 
 also receiving clothes, because hardly any of them have enough to wear. The  
Chamber of Commerce of Biratnagar will give flood victims in Balaha a meal 
twice  a day until 28 August. From then onwards, SOS Children's Villages Nepal 
will  take over and provide food. 

Immediately after the flooding - which hit  around 35,000 people - mothers, 
staff members, children and young people from  SOS Children's Village Itahari 
provided the first emergency relief and also made  personal donations for those 
affected. 







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