¡Û UNICEF EMERGENCY OFFICER CAUGHT IN INDONESIAN EARTHQUAKE
¡°The floor started moving and I looked up and could see the ceiling rippling. The shaking was the worst I had experienced. We ran outside, ¡°describes Lina Sofiani, UNICEF¡¯s Emergency Officer in Indonesia who was caught in the 6.1 Richter earthquake in Yogyakarta today.
Sofiani was in the city working with Government officials coordinating the emergency response to the on going Mt. Merapi volcanic activity.
¡°I drove toward the airport and saw people lining the street, panicked about the possibility of a tsunami. Many commercial building were damaged with cracks in their external walls. I saw houses flattened.¡±
Sofiani then traveled further out of the city on the road to Solo, a nearby city.
¡°One of the major hospitals was surrounded people seeking help. Injured people were lying on the backs of flat bed trucks waiting for help. Even the small health centres and medical clinics were overwhelmed with people.¡±
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¡Û UNICEF SUPPLIES READY FOR EARTHQUAKE STRICKEN CITY
May 27: UNICEF is preparing emergency supplies to be sent to help victims of the earthquake in Central Java, Indonesia.
The UN¡¯s Children Agency has deployed staff to Yogyakarta, hard hit by the earthquake to assess the immediate needs of victims.
UNICEF has emergency supplies of tents, hygiene kits, health kits and school supplies ready to be transported to the earthquake zone.
The supplies are:
9000 tarpaulins
850 hygiene kits
1165 small tents
753 large tents
4000 lanterns
160 collapsible water tanks
1707 school kits
50 school tents
152 recreation kits
90 school in a box school supplies