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UNITED NATIONS GIVES $200,000 TO SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION
Posting Date: 09/18/89 Source: UNITEX Network, Hoboken, NJ, USA
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Ronald I. Spiers, Under-Secretary-General for Political and
General Assembly Affairs and Secretariat Services, handed over a
check today for $200,000 to the Save the Children Federation for
emergency relief assistance to 12,000 families displaced by the
recent fighting in and around Beirut. The money comes from the
Secretary-General's Trust Fund for Assistance to Lebanon. Most
of this particular contribution was donated by Australia.
The funds will be used to provide blankets, mattresses, kitchen
utensils, sanitary facilities, water and other basic supplies to
families whose houses have been destroyed and who are forced to
live in underground parking lots, unfinished buildings, schools
or other types of temporary shelters. The emergency aid will be
distributed by relief teams of the Save the Children Federation
in east and west Beirut, the eastern mountains, Chouf and Iqlim,
southern Lebanon and the Beqaa.
The Save the Children Federation has worked in the Middle East
since 1953. Apart from emergency assistance to families in
Lebanon most affected by the ongoing civil strife, the Save the
Children Federation administers community development projects
in credit, health, education and agriculture. The Federation
also provides food aid to the once prosperous country. The Save
the Children Federation's annual country programme budget in
Lebanon now exceeds $25 million.
The United Nations specialized agencies and programmes co-operate
closely with non-governmental organizations active in Lebanon,
such as the Save the Children Federation. In April of this
year, the Secretary-General made an appeal for emergency
assistance to Lebanon, and the $200,000 given to the Federation
was made possible by the response to this appeal.
Member States and international organizations have stepped up
funding to the United Nations for a co-ordinated relief approach
in Lebanon. Only recently, the European Economic Community
(EEC) donated 1,472,000 ECUs to the United Nations Disaster
Relief Co-ordinator's Office. The United Nations efforts in
Lebanon are being co-ordinated by Ragnar Gudmundsson, who is the
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for
Reconstruction and Development of Lebanon and Resident
Representative of the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP).
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