Thursday, 5 January 2012

UNHCR completes 7,000 shelters for flood victims United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

PESHAWAR The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has completed construction of over 7,000 one-room permanent shelters for flood affected families whose homes were destroyed in the 2010 floods in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The Government of Japan donated $59 million to support the UNHCR flood rehabilitation assistance programmes including the agency’s shelter project for flood-affected Pakistanis and Afghan refugees.

A UNHCR release said the commission had planned to build

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