This new funding brings the total earmarked for this disaster to Euro 7.2 million so far. Euro 3.2 million Torrential rains hit Venezuela in late December, resulting in mudslides and catastrophic flooding. Up to 50,000 people may have lost their lives. This funding covers emergency assistance for survivors. This funding brings the total allocated for this disaster so far to Euro 3.6 million.
Further assistance is in the pipeline.
Euro 3 million Ongoing ethnic conflicts in parts of Indonesia have resulted in thousands of people fleeing violence. This programme covers distribution of warm clothes, as well as coal to heat creches, orphanages, health centres, hospitals and other institutions. The weakening of social security systems in the former Soviet Union has hit those vulnerable in remote communities particularly hard. This one-off decision will cover assistance for institutions looking after children, for prisons, and for vulnerable groups such as elderly people living alone, and the homeless, including street children. These newly-independent states are having enormous difficulty covering social security for their citizens.