DUSHANBE, January 19, 2016, Asia-Plus — Good Neighbors Tajikistan (GNT) has provided humanitarian aid to the earthquake victims in the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO).
According to GNT’s office in Dushanbe, the aid consignment has been formed due to financial support of the South Korea’s Embassy in Dushanbe worth 60,000 U.S. dollars and financial support of GNT worth 45,338 U.S. dollars.
The assistance reportedly included 6 tons of dried milk, 120 electric fires, 120 thermoses, 120 kettles, warm clothes for adults and children, etc. Besides, large kettles and samovars have been purchased.
The assistance was distributed among the earthquake-affected families from Bartang Valley that are currently living in schools, kindergartens and other public centers in the Rushan district.
We will recall that a magnitude-7.2 temblor occurred in Gorno Badakhshan on December 7, killing two persons and injuring ten people.
The Geophysics Survey of Tajikistan’s Academy of Sciences says the epicenter was 93 kilometers west of the settlement of Murgab, the administrative center of GBAO’s Murgab district, 138 kilometers northeast of Khorog, the capital of Gorno Badakhshan and 357 kilometers southeast of Dushanbe.
The Bartang Valley in the Rushan district was the most hit area. According to figures from the Committee of Emergency Situations and Civil Defense under the Government of Tajikistan, 1,327 houses were damaged or destroyed and 7,962 people were displaced as of December 11. Critical infrastructure, including roads, medical facilities, hydro-power stations, and schools also incurred damage.
50 hectares have been allotted to the earth-affected residents of Bartang for housing in the Basid jamoat of Rushan. Construction of new residential buildings for the quake-affected people will start in the spring.
Good Neighbors Tajikistan (GNT) is an international relief and development NGO established by Good Neighbors international (GNI) in Tajikistan in 1998. GNT started for supporting civil war orphans in Dushanbe. Now GNT is supporting more than 10,000 children in 14 regions through regular sponsors and conducts various projects for community development.
Community development projects of Good Neighbors Tajikistan conduct various projects to develop generally through multilateral approach in sections of education, health, water and sanitation and income generation etc. through community development projects, GNT expects to promote self-reliance of community and make children and local people live in better life.
Good Neighbors is an international Christian humanitarian and development non-governmental organization in General Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (UN ECOSOC), and one of the largest in South Korea. Established in 1991, the organization currently conducts missions around the world to improve quality of life and educational standards, as well as to provide aid in areas of civil unrest or natural disasters.
