DUSHANBE, February 16, Asia-Plus – Tajikistan’s National Red Crescent Society (NRCS) yesterday sent 450 ker0sene-ovens to the tremor-hit areas of the Qumsangir district in the Khatlon province and 500 other kerosene-ovens to Gorno Badakhshan, where people have been left without electricity after a flooding of the Pamir-1 hydropower plant.
Madina Sayfiddinova, media officer with the NRCS headquarters in Dushanbe, said that it had become possible due to cooperation with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). “Under an agreement signed with SDC, the ovens arrived in Tajikistan last Saturday,” Sayfiddinova said, adding that international humanitarian organization FOCUS had provided vehicles for transporting 500 kerosene-ovens to Gorno Badakhshan.
