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NGO Directory, 27 October 2011
Address:
6/F, Southorn Centre
130 Hennessy Rd., Wan Chai
Hong Kong
China
Tel: +852 2834 6863
Fax: +852 2834 7627
Email: isshk@isshk.org
Web: www.isshk.org/eng/index.htm
The UN refugee agency has provided 11,000 urgently needed tents to China to help with emergency shelter for some of the 5 million people left homeless after the devastating earthquake that struck Sichuan province on May 12, 2008.
The tents, which were manufactured in China for UNHCR, have been transported to the quake zone. The first 2,000 tents were airlifted to the zone and arrived in Chengdu on May 25 and the remaining 9,000 arrived not long after. These tents can provide shelter for 55,000 people. They have been distributed in the cities of Aba, Deyang and Guangyuan, close to the epicentre of the quake.
Posted on 4 June 2008
