Urgent appeal!
 


UN Photo. Used by permission.

The waves of violence in southern Kyrgyzstan have affected more than a million people. More than 400,000 of them are completely displaced, having escaped to neighbouring Uzbekistan or huddling along the Uzbek/Kyrgyz border. There is inadequate food, water, hygiene and protection. Families have been torn apart and there has been widespread gender violence, resulting in significant trauma.
 
Operation Mercy is registered in Uzbekistan and plans to provide aid initially amongst the 75,000 people who have fled there. Your help is urgently required in order that we can provide the following relief aid:

• 10,000 food parcels
• 5,000 hygiene kits
• 5,000 baby kits including nappies and formula
• Psychosocial programmes for trauma intervention
• Child-friendly spaces so that children can receive – through safe, protected play – help with their own trauma.

If you would like to give to this work, click the “Donate Now!” box. You will find this on the right side column. During the months of June and July, our “Where most needed” fund will be dedicated to relief work in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan (unless otherwise stated).

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