CARE International Donates to Northern Flood Victims

CARE International, Ghana, a non-government organisation is committing GH¢140,000 from its emergency response fund to provide emergency relief services to the estimated 170,000 people displaced by floods in Northern Ghana. A statement issued in Accra on Friday by Mr Afurika Juvenal, Deputy Country Director of CARE International, Ghana, said the organisation would focus its response on vulnerable people in crop growing communities who were located in the least accessible part of the flooded areas that were severely affected. "Although the government and humanitarian organisations are making remarkable progress in supporting the victims of the floods, a number of less-accessible communities have not received any assistance," the statement added. The statement said CARE is committed to work with other stakeholders to provide food, emergency supplies, water and sanitation facilities to support 8,000 people affected by the floods. It would also give particular attention to the most disadvantaged communities with high vulnerability, with special focus on the needs of pregnant women and lactating mothers and households with multiple children under five, who live in communities not easily accessible. The statement said the organisation is prepared to scale up the response needed and would work with the communities in their efforts towards sustainable recovery after the floods and adaptation to climate change. The 2010 floods are the results of the unprecedented heavy and late rainfall in the area, devastating farms and affecting tens of thousands of people. CARE is helping to empower communities against the greatest threats to their survival, in order to realise their rights, have better access to social services and live in dignity.