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UNHCR tailoring shelter solutions to meet Aceh needs
4 Feb 2005 UNHCR is tailoring shelter solutions to meet the different circumstances of tsunami victims in Indonesia's Aceh province. The main aim is to get them back into their own homes as soon as possible by rebuilding, extending or constructing new homes - after consulting them on their wishes. -
Nobel "Man for Peace" visits orphans, schools in Aceh
31 Jan 2005 Yusuf Islam, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, joined the UNHCR team in Lamno on Aceh's west coast over the weekend to visit children displaced by the tsunami who he plans to assist through his organisation, Small Kindness. -
Looking beyond emergency relief in Aceh
28 Jan 2005 While UNHCR will continue distributing non-food relief items as and when there is a need, it is focusing on longer-term responses like shelter planning and site design, as well as providing advice on health, water, sanitation and the protection of vulnerable displaced people. -
Tsunami survivors face grim task of rebuilding lives
27 Jan 2005 One month after the tsunami disaster, Indonesian authorities and aid workers have declared that the emergency phase of relief work is practically over. But the more critical tasks of recovery and rehabilitation remain as displaced people assess their options for return to their devastated homes. -
Swiss helicopter brings baby Erica home to Aceh town
25 Jan 2005 As part of the humanitarian relief effort on the west coast of Indonesia's Aceh province, UNHCR and a Swiss helicopter have helped a baby who underwent urgent surgery in Meulaboh to return home to the devastated town of Calang. -
UNHCR's shelter relief boosted by Swiss helicopters
18 Jan 2005 UNHCR's shelter relief efforts in the Indonesian province of Aceh are now moving into top gear as the Swiss Super Puma helicopters fully swing into action today ferrying relief supplies, including tents, to the battered west coast of the province. The aim is to get people displaced by the Dec. 26 tsunami back into their own homes as soon as possible. -
Indonesia: UNHCR assists nearly 12,000 previously-undiscovered tsunami survivors
14 Jan 2005 UNHCR plans to take relief supplies as soon as possible to some 12,000 people it "discovered" in northern Sumatra whose homes had been destroyed by the Dec. 26 Indian Ocean tsunami. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka is slowly recovering from the tragedy, with many displaced people now leaving temporary accommodation centres. -
Major push underway to get UNHCR relief supplies to Aceh
12 Jan 2005 In a major push to get all UNHCR's 400 tonnes of relief supplies that were airlifted into Indonesia to the tsunami-stricken province of Aceh, the refugee agency is today using additional commercial charter flights and truck convoys from Jakarta to move supplies to Banda Aceh. Meanwhile in Geneva, it is not yet clear how much funding the refugee agency will receive for its tsunami emergency proposals from the US$738 million pledged at the Indian Ocean Flash Appeal late Tuesday. -
UNHCR steps up aid to tsunami victims as U.N. urges donor governments to be generous
11 Jan 2005 UNHCR continues to move relief supplies to tsunami survivors in hard-hit areas of Indonesia and Sri Lanka, while participating in a UN conference in Geneva asking donor governments to fully fund an appeal for $977 million.