Relief agencies deliver food, clothes to 1,500 families

A UN inter-agency mission and NGOs have delivered much needed relief aid to some 1,500 families of internally displaced persons whose camp was destroyed by fire on 27 September, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Burundi reported. The fire had left the families without their crops, clothes, utensils and school materials. OCHA said that its officers - together with those of the UN Children's Fund, the World Food Programme (WFP), CARE and the International rescue Committee (IRC) - travelled to Kivoga, in the Rubirizi zone of Bujumbura Rural, on Wednesday to deliver the aid. WFP delivered food, including 62.2 mt of maize, and CARE 2.38 mt of oil to at least 7,820 beneficiaries. OCHA provided clothes that the IRC distributed to at least 1,000 children 0-10 years old. In addition UNICEF, OCHA and the IRC, distributed at least 4,000 notebooks and other basis materials to some 500 children in Kivoga Primary School. "Many of the children in the Kivoga camp do not attend school due to a lack of finance. Those children who do attend rarely have the necessary materials, severely hindering their education," OCHA reported.