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EMERGENCY: Timor-Leste Floods (SM)

Timor-Leste Floods
Timor-Leste Floods

imagine experiencing a flash flood that destroys your home and sweeps away your livelihood.

You and your family must move into a crowded evacuation centre, which is the optimum environment for diseases to spread. With coronavirus in the community, you are caught between crises.

Your support is urgently needed for our neighbours in Timor-Leste.

Heavy rains, flash floods and landslides have destroyed houses, businesses and many of the medical supplies used in the ongoing coronavirus response. More than 10,000 Timorese people are affected and need your immediate help. This event is without doubt the worst flooding the country has seen in recent history.

The current coronavirus situation adds complexity and risk to the response. It is difficult to follow coronavirus precautions in evacuation centres where there are few masks, limited to no social distancing and no available clean water for handwashing.

You can empower families in Timor-Leste to rebuild their lives after these devastating floods. Your donation can help to provide access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene at Evacuation Centres as well as improve access for people with disabilities to critical services. Your support today will ensure that this urgent life-saving work can happen.
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Oxfam warns of COVID-19 risks in camps following Indonesian earthquake

Oxfam warned today of the risk of an outbreak of coronavirus in the over-crowded camps where people are sheltering following Friday’s earthquake in Sulawesi, Indonesia.

At least 56 people are reported dead, more than 826 injured and more than 15,000 fled from their homes following 6.2 magnitude earthquake which damaged and destroyed hundreds of homes around the cities of Majene and Mamuju in the west of the island.  Many of those who fled the quake are now sheltering in 15 camps.

Oxfam is working through its local partners Jejaring Mitra Kemanusiaan (JMK-Humanitarian Knowledge Hub) to help those affected by the earthquake.

Oxfam in Indonesia’s Humanitarian Operation Lead Dino Argianto said:

“Initially, access to some of the affected areas was blocked due to damage to the road between the two cities. Now it has been cleared, we have been able to travel to the camps and have seen the conditions people are living in.

“The camps are over-crowded, with no precautionary measures in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and there is limited PPE available – yet this is a part of Indonesia that is currently classified as a high transmission risk zone.

“There are many displaced people on the road, and no segregation in the camps, leading to safety concerns particularly for women and children.

“We were able to do an initial assessment and distribute some tarpaulin for shelter, hygiene kits and dignity kits for women, but much more is needed.”

Oxfam in Indonesia will continue to work through its local partner, JMK, in close coordination with government bodies and departments, such as the National Disaster Management Office, Ministry of Social Affairs and other humanitarian agencies.

Towards a more equal Indonesia

The gap between the richest and the rest in Indonesia has grown faster in the past two decades than in any other country in South-East Asia.

The four richest men in Indonesia now have more wealth than the poorest 100 million people. Inequality is slowing down poverty reduction, dampening economic growth and threatening social cohesion.

President Jokowi has made fighting inequality his administration’s top priority for 2017. This report shows how he could achieve this by enforcing a living wage for all workers, increasing spending on public services, and making big corporations and rich individuals pay their fair share of tax.

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