NEWS VISION - Febuary 2007
Rescue teams evacuating families who were trapped by 1-meter high flood waters in a housing complex in Kedoya, West Jakarta. |
The raging waters inundated flood-prone areas such as Kampung Melayu, Cawang, Kelapa Gading, Greenville, Kedoya and Puri Indah. The floods halted all business activities in the Indonesian capital city. At least seven people were reported killed in the disaster.
All World Vision Indonesia's development projects in Jakarta slum communities were severely affected by this unfortunate calamity. The affected projects included the Cawang, Cipinang Melayu, Kebon Pala and Cilincing Area Development Programmes (ADPs). The Cipinang Melayu ADP is supported by World Vision Singapore.World Vision relief team continued their rapid pace of aid distribution in several places in East and North Jakarta. “Our beneficiaries in this second phase distribution will increase to around 10,000 families (approximately 40,000 people) instead of some 7,300 families as earlier planned,” said Jimmy Nadapdap, WV Indonesia Relief Coordinator.
An estimated S$560,000 is needed to support the current relief operations and procurement of emergency supplies.
Rescue teams evacuating families who were trapped by 1-meter high flood waters in a housing complex in Kedoya, West Jakarta.
The Worst May Not Be Over – Children Falling Sick as Jakarta Floods Recede
Food distribution by Kebon Pala ADP staff in an internally displaced place in a sport hall in Halim, East Jakarta. |
February 7 - Scores of children, mostly under five, are falling ill with diarrhoea, dehydration, fever and other flood-related illnesses as floods across Jakarta started to recede yesterday. Dark clouds, however, hanged all over the Greater Jakarta area throughout the day, sending a message to the flood victims that their misery might not be over yet.
World Vision Indonesia Director Trihadi Saptoadi, during his visit to a mosque in Semper Barat, North Jakarta, on Wednesday discovered scores of children were falling sick. “One of them has just been rushed to hospital due to severe diarrhoea,” he said.
Similar situation was also occurring in other temporary shelters in other slum areas in North and East Jakarta. Health workers operating emergency health posts have been referring ill children to hospitals to save their lives.
Hundreds of people were still sheltering at the mosque, crowded all empty space there. Children played amid dirty water and trash. Clean water was scarce, making babies and older children extremely vulnerable to diseases.
World Vision Singapore will be committing some S$25,000 to provide relief items like food, water supplies, clothing, blankets and medicine to affected communities in the initial emergency response phase.
To find out more, call 6221 1040 or log on to www.worldvision.org.sg
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