Source: Dawn
Date: Sept 20, 2010
ISLAMABAD, Sept 20: The Strengthening Participatory Organisation (SPO), with the technical assistance of Unicef, has established 12 temporary learning and recreation (TLR) facilities at the relief camps set up for flood-affected people in Makli, Thatta.
The affected children have been engaged in recreational and learning activities such as drawing, colouring, games, story-telling and singing rhymes through interactive methods, said Malick Shahbaz, the head of SPO special projects, in a press statement here.
In the aftermath of the floods, children are the most vulnerable to hazards and susceptible to traumas. He said SPO was planning to establish 52 TLR sites covering all nine tehsils of Thatta.
Mr Shahbaz said SPO had planned to reach 16,400 households in the districts of Charsadda, Nowshera, Swat, Naseerabad, Sibbi, Dadu, Ghotki, Layyah and Mianwali through funding from international donors and UN agencies.
“Realising the gravity of the situation, SPO along with its partner organisations has initiated relief activities for people in the affected areas.
Currently, SPO is involved in provision of food and nonfood items, cholera kits, medicine besides establishing health camps in the flood-affected areas,” he added.
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