DILI, 15 june 2021 (TATOLI) – Care International and European Union provides financial support amount of €100,000 to provide housing to families affected by the last April foods. CARE International and European Union is partnership with Timor-Leste government to provide shelter technical assistance to ensure victim house not more affected by floods in the future.
According to the note said CARE is supporting families who have been impacted by the April floods and Timor-Leste government is working on afford to provide technical shelter support to at least 200 households in Dili.
This technical shelter support includes awareness raising for community how to construct safe housing. The housing is provided to ensure the inclusion of women, girls and people living with a disability condition.
To ensure for the shelters for vulnerable people and everyone will be heard in the decision making process. It is on focus for identifying and increasing their meaningful participation in humanitarian decision for the shelters.
CARE International in Timor-Leste, Country Director, Peter Good Fellow, said, “we are committed to supporting the Secretariat of Civic Protection to ensure that vulnerable families affected by the flooding are able to return home safely.
Many families remain at risk of future flooding and landslides, so we are proud to work with the European Union to reduce such households vulnerability to future disasters through improved house construction techniques for resilient housing.
Women and children are most suffered and die more likely than men. CARE’s focus on bringing women into humanitarian planning actively reduces this gap.
The Ambassador of the European Union to Timor-Leste, Andrew Jacobs, recognized that climate change is exacerbating environmental degradation.
“In addition to increasingly frequent and severe natural hazards triggering disaster, climate change and environmental degradation are among the root causes of conflict, food insecurity and displacement,” said Andrew Jacobs
CARE will use Lafaek magazine as a mechanism to reach 103,000 households in rural and remote areas. It is including of CARE’s websites reaching over 137,000 people in urban areas. In total, CARE is reached hundreds of thousands of people with information about safe house construction.
Journalist: Jose Belarmino de Sá
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