InterAction Members Respond to the Crisis in Zimbabwe

11 Dec 2008 01:07 Africa/Lagos


InterAction Members Respond to the Crisis in Zimbabwe

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Basic government services are not being provided in Zimbabwe. The public health system has collapsed and cholera and other communicable diseases are rampant. Staggering inflation and unemployment have resulted in shortages of food and fuel. Estimates are that 300,000 people remain at risk of cholera, which is being spread by a shortage of clean water and a lack of functioning sanitation services. To date, the outbreak has claimed over 600 lives.


InterAction members, along with their partner agencies, are providing numerous humanitarian interventions focusing on water, sanitation, hygiene, food distributions, medicine procurement and distribution, health services, education and relief to communities displaced by violence.


A regularly updated list of agencies responding is available at:
www.interaction.org/zimbabwe


InterAction has also developed guidelines on the most appropriate ways to help those affected by overseas disasters: http://www.interaction.org/disaster/guide_giving.html.


InterAction is a coalition of more than 170 U.S.-based private relief, international development and refugee assistance organizations. InterAction members have agreed to abide by a set of standards to ensure accountability to donors, professional competence and quality of service.


Source: InterAction

CONTACT: Nasserie Carew, +1-202-552-6561, ncarew@interaction.org, or
Tawana Jacobs, +1-202-552-6534, tjacobs@interaction.org, both of InterAction


Web Site: http://www.interaction.org/



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