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HANDS ACROSS THE OCEAN

How much the aid agencies have received and how they are spending it

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

How much has been raised?

$1.66 billion

How is it being spent?

Focus was first on emergency relief, now on long-term recovery.

An estimated $1 billion will be spent from 2006 to 2010. At least $580 million will be spent in Indonesia and $370 million in Sri Lanka.

Working: principally in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, India and Myanmar.

Immediate relief includes: food, water and sanitation services, household items, sleeping mats and mosquito nets, health services, shelter, family kits, clothing, hygiene kits, kitchen catering equipment, tents, plastic sheets, family links service.

Planned recovery programmes include: reconstruction of water and sanitation services, hygiene promotion and psychological support programmes, improvement of blood and ambulance services, disaster-preparedness training, reconstruction of hospitals and health facilities, developing emergency treatment services, latrine construction and solid waste management, temporary housing, disaster response training for Red Cross volunteers, support and tools for building workers and fishermen, debris clearance.

Medecins Sans Frontieres

How much has been raised?

$129 million

How is it being spent?

Specific donations were halted seven days after the tsunami because MSF could not spend the amount on tsunami operations, but spontaneous donations continued. 75 per cent of donations are now being redirected to other purposes with donors? permission.

Working: principally in Indonesia and Sri Lanka, also India and Thailand.

Key provisions include: disease surveillance, vaccinations, distribution of sheeting, mosquito nets, sleeping mats, blankets, soap, towels, hygiene kits, sarongs, jerry cans, buckets, kitchen sets and reconstruction material.

Ongoing focus includes: medical care in hospitals and clinics and through mobile and pre-fabricated clinics, mental care, especially of children, psycho-social support with individual and group counselling, post-traumatic stress counselling, provision of clean water, sanitary services, reconstruction tools and materials for rebuilding health centres, homes and boats.

Oxfam

How much has been raised?

$188 million

How is it being spent?

Emergency relief operations are being wound up, but some aid distribution continues and work started by other NGOs is being taken on. Plans in place for a six-year reconstruction and livelihood programme.

Working mainly in India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.

Key provisions so far include: water and sanitation facilities, materials for reconstruction, cash-for-work programmes including paying survivors to rebuild houses and infrastructure and encouraging women in small enterprises, provision of compost to regenerate salinated fields, provision of shelter and hygiene promotion in camps, repair of boats, debris cleaning and land clearance for plant-growing, provision of tools, latrines, bathing facilities, water tanks, public health promotion messages and workshops, cleaning wells.

Salvation Army

How much has been raised?

$35 million

How is it being spent?

Focus on rehabilitation and recovery rather than emergency relief.

Working: mainly in India, Indonesia and Sri Lanka.

Key ongoing provisions include: coastal relief programmes including buying and repairing boats, providing fishing nets replacing and rebuilding houses, short-term feeding programme for those in temporary shelters, psychological support in community centres, assistance in reconstruction including house-building, water supply, sanitation, roads and relocating communities farther inland.

Save the Children

How much has been raised?

$207 million

How is it being spent?

Emergency relief operations are currently being shifted to longer-term recovery efforts.

Working: principally in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and the Andaman Islands; also in Thailand, Somalia and Maldives.

Emergency relief provisions include: Food, household kits, medical kits, back-to-school kits, family packs, plastic sheeting, clothing.

Current provisions include: child protection through registering and reuniting separated children with their families, creation of safe play areas, psycho-social support and community monitoring in relief camps, provision of pre-school education, teacher training, rehabilitation and rebuilding of early childhood development centres, construction of transitional shelter, distribution of boats and tools to fishing families, material aid for marginalised communities and salt panning industries.

Unicef

How much has been raised?

$442 million

How is it being spent?

$362 million is being allocated for the next two years, including $168 million to Indonesia and $115 million to Sri Lanka.

Working: in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and the Andaman Islands, Thailand, Maldives, Myanmar, Somalia and Malaysia.

Key health and welfare provisions include: Child immunisation for measles and polio, vitamin A supplements, feeding centres for children and pregnant women, family dietary supplements and rehydration treatment, basic drugs and supplies for health facilities, centres to trace separated and unaccompanied children, child-protection training programmes for military and police, emergency latrines and basic sanitation kits, emergency toilets, temporary water supplies, potable water, water storage tanks, family water kits, water pumps, water-quality testing kits, rehabilitation and chlorination of water supply systems, hygiene education campaigns in schools and camps, emergency cooking sets, mosquito nets and repellant, oral rehydration salts, tarpaulin rolls for shelters, emergency medical kits, creation of child-friendly spaces in relief camps.

Key education provisions include: emergency school supplies including ?school-in-a-box? kits, exercise books and tents, recruitment and training for 2,000 teachers, school cleaning campaigns, recreation kits for children, leaflet campaigns on hygiene and safe health practices, training for teachers and counsellors to support distressed children, school uniforms, natural disaster-awareness teaching aids.

World Vision

How much has been raised?

$267 million

How is it being spent?

$35 million was spent in the first three months on relief and rehabilitation.

Three- to five-year programme encompasses emergency relief, economic recovery, community and social rehabilitation, and infrastructure reconstruction.

Working: principally in Indonesia and Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and Myanmar.

Key provisions include: rice, oil and other food distribution, cooking utensils, nutritional training programmes, blankets, children?s clothes, temporary shelters, survival kits, tarpaulin sheets, latrines, water purification units, construction of wells, transitional accommodation centres, creation of child-friendly spaces in camps, mobile clinics and trauma counselling, playgrounds, toy sets, school supplies, fishing equipment, mosquito nets.

(All sums in US dollars)

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