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In response to the Tsunami disaster, the United Nations is coordinating one of the world's largest relief operations in the history of humanity. Several UN agencies are in the region responding to the most urgent needs: food shelter, medicine and special aid to children.
OCHA, the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is organizing the relief effort on the ground. UN agencies are providing direct assistance in the following areas:
  • helping to identify children and reunite them with parents or other relatives;
  • delivering water purification materials, medicines, and oral rehydration salts (to prevent diarrhoea among the displaced children);
  • providing emergency food supplies to sustain the nearly 1,500,00 displaced people in the region;
  • providing tents, plastic sheeting, plastic mats, blankets, cooking sets and clothing;
  • providing assistance to the victims of trauma, especially young mothers and children.


To assist this effort you can donate online to:

United Nations Fund for Children

World Food Programme

United Nations Refugee Agency

United Nations Population Fund

Check latest updates on the relief efforts.

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