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World Vision sends relief team to Rwanda quake zone
03 Feb 2008 22:49:00 GMT
 Source: World Vision - USA
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Kigali, Rwanda, February 3, 2008--Two earthquakes struck parts of Rwanda and neighbouring Congo earlier today, leaving nearly 40 people dead and hundreds injured. In Rwanda, a World Vision relief team has been disaptched to the hardest-hit, southeastern district of Rusizi to assess the situation and determine how the aid agency can best respond.

"The quake struck at a time when most people were in church this morning. Unfortunately, most of the dead were killed because they were inside churches that collapsed," reported Kofi Hagan, World Vision's Rwanda country director, from Kigali.

"We felt the tremor here in Kigali," Hagan said. Kigali is some 200 km from Rusizi district.

The Christian aid agency has served in Rwanda since 1994, when it responded to the needs of displaced people and cared for unaccompanied children affected by the genocide. Current programs benefit more than 600,000 people and cover food aid and food security, health and nutrition, education, child protection, advocacy and human rights awareness building, and peace building and reconciliation.

Media contacts: Kofi Hagan in Rwanda, +250-083-023-59 Geoffrey Kalebbo Denye in Kenya, +254-733-442744 Rachel Wolff in U.S., +1-253-394-2214

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.


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