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Help for Georgian refugees

Tsira ran away from South Ossetia region with her 3 year old daughter Ani. "We did not have clothes, food or water when we came to Tbilisi," she said. Photo by D. Dzotsendize/IOCC-ACT International.

The ACT alliance and DanchurchAid now widens the Caucasus emergency response in Ossetia (North and South) and I Georgia. In both places DanChurchAid has ACT partners with a long presence and involvement. I Georgia these include a number of German and American alliance partners, who are already working with some of the 56.000 internally displaced Georgians.

750.000 DKK in material aid

DanChurchAid has chosen to prepare an intervention especially towards the 30.000 refugees from South Ossetia, who crossed the border to the North and fled into North Ossetia, which is part of Russia. In that region DCA’s long standing partner Hungarian Interchurch Aid has personnel and infrastructure ready for an emergency response aimed at especially women and children among the refugees. These refugees are felt to have less media attention and less access to international support. DCA prepares a Material Aid support of 750.000 DKK (appr. 100.000 €) for this response, most probably for foodstuffs, sanitary and household packages.

For further assessment of the needs, the ACT alliance now sends an international assessment mission to the area in which Niels Nikolajsen from Denmark participates. He is former employee of DanChurchAid and the LWF. Friday he had meetings with DCA about the situation. He is now preparing to go to the region and will report back – including on possible further needs for support.

By Jørgen Thomsen and Lisa Henry

For more information contact Jørgen Thomsen, coordinator for Eastern Europe and Centralasien, tel. +45 29 70 06 27 mail: jth@dca.dk