China: Cold Wave Victims Assisted
 During the month of April, DAI - through its local partner organisations - is assisting 3,500 people who suffer from immediate food insecurity. The food-distribution will be done in the provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi and Guangdong in China.
The beneficiaries are very poor people living in mountainous and/or rural regions and belong to ethnic minority communities.
The worst winter weather in decades brought brutal temperatures and lethal snowstorms China in early 2008, knocking out power supplies, crippling transport and destroying crops. Freak cold and snow across the southern half of China killed more than 100 people and affected some 100 million others.
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Blizzards brought down houses, destroyed crops and created the
country's worst ever power crisis as storms toppled pylons and ice on
rail tracks halted coal deliveries. Thick ice and hail even hit parts
China's subtropical south, while two central provinces recorded their
coldest weather in 100 years.
This is the second food relief project DAI implements in China this
year - thanks to all donors who make it possible to reach out to our
fellow-human beings in need. |
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