ERCS Continues to Provide Assistance to Victims of Floods and Landslides in Gamo Zone
The Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) continues to provide humanitarian assistance to those affected by floods and landslides in the Gacho Baba, Bonke, and Kemba districts of the Gamo Zone, Southern Ethiopia Region, following two days of heavy rains last week.
The Society responded within 24 hours of the disaster, deploying more than 20 volunteers and staff, as well as an ambulance, to support those affected. This support included providing food and non-food items, as well as shelter to those displaced from their homes, and searching for those who had not yet been found.
According to Ato Sileshi Sisay, the head of the ERCS’s Gamo Zone branch, the Society has so far provided food and non-food items worth over six million birr.600 kilograms of flour; 2,134 non-food items and hygiene kits have been distributed to the victims, he added.
According to the head, a total of 131 people have died in the three districts of the disaster, while 2,493 households have been displaced; 27,450 individuals have been affected; 396 livestock have died; 417 houses have been destroyed, and 32 hectares of farmland have been destroyed.
Ato Sileshi noted that the affected communities require urgent support, including emergency shelter and non-food items, medical and psychosocial support, water, sanitation and hygiene services and livelihood recovery support and called upon all stakeholders to do their part to support the victims.
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