{"id":533547,"date":"2010-04-19T05:17:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T09:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/applications\/blogs\/pressoffice\/?p=12235"},"modified":"2010-04-19T05:17:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T09:17:58","slug":"oxfam-team-distributes-aid-in-earthquake-hit-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/533547","title":{"rendered":"Oxfam team distributes aid in earthquake hit China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; layout-grid-mode: char; text-align: left; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">International agency Oxfam said on Saturday (17 April 2010) that its first team of aid experts\u00a0had arrived in the town of Jiegu, in Yushu County of Qinghai, the region most seriously hit by the China Earthquake. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; layout-grid-mode: char; text-align: left; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; layout-grid-mode: char; text-align: left; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The team is now working in a temporary camp set up on a racecourse in Jiegu and distributing blankets for 2,000 survivors. About 20,000 people are living in this camp. <\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><br style=\"mso-special-character: line-break;\" \/><br style=\"mso-special-character: line-break;\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; layout-grid-mode: char; text-align: left; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\" lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cThe temperature here during the daytime is around 10 degrees <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\">Celsius; at night, it drops to <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\" lang=\"EN-US\">below zero. The freezing weather is a huge challenge for the people made homeless by the earthquake, including people living in the camp in Jiegu. Oxfam is working with the local government to address people\u2019s urgent needs; the government is providing food and tents,\u201d said Aman Yee, Deputy Programme Manager of the Rural Development and Disaster Management Team of Oxfam Hong Kong.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; layout-grid-mode: char; text-align: left; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; layout-grid-mode: char; text-align: left; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u201cQinghai is one of China&#8217;s poorest provinces. Poverty is the key reason why people are vulnerable to disasters. Oxfam is liaising with local government units to plan the next step; we target to assist the most impoverished people in this crisis,\u201d Aman Yee added.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; layout-grid-mode: char; text-align: left; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; layout-grid-mode: char; text-align: left; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Oxfam will fly blankets from Yunnan to Qinghai.\u00a0Sichuan Airlines is providing free transportation. Oxfam\u2019s first priority for shipment is 1,000 blankets; next will be 600 tents. <span style=\"color: black;\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; layout-grid-mode: char; text-align: left; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; layout-grid-mode: char; text-align: left; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Another Oxfam team\u00a0is on its way to Shiqu County, Sichuan Province, which was also hit by the earthquake; the team will distribute 1,000 blankets and 1,000 rolls of durable waterproof fabric as temporary shelter.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; layout-grid-mode: char; text-align: left; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; layout-grid-mode: char; text-align: left; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Oxfam has assisted in previous emergencies in Qinghai, such as the massive snowstorms in 1997 and 2008.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; layout-grid-mode: char; text-align: left; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; layout-grid-mode: char; text-align: left; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Oxfam has an initial plans to spend HK$2 million (\u00a3170,000) on relief and rehabilitation projects.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International agency Oxfam said on Saturday (17 April 2010) that its first team of aid experts\u00a0had arrived in the town of Jiegu, in Yushu County of Qinghai, the region most seriously hit by the China Earthquake. \u00a0 The team is now working in a temporary camp set up on a racecourse in Jiegu and distributing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}