ERCS calls for support to Emergency Response and Early Recovery Fundraising

Addis Ababa, January 6, 2020 (FBC) – Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) has called for support to emergency response and early recovery fundraising plan intended to rehabilitate communities affected by manmade and natural calamities including conflict, flood, locust swarms, COVID 19, among others.

In a statement issued yesterday, ERCS stated that both manmade and natural calamities have been wrecking humanitarian crisis in several parts of Ethiopia.

The statement indicates that violences in Tigray, Oromia, Benshangul Gumuz and Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples region affected hundreds of thousands.

Huge number of internally displaced people, vulnerable children, women, elders and people with disability left their home fleeing communal violence and other natural mishaps, the statement indicates.

According to the statement, in mid October, 2020 the desert locust swarms damaged 1, 252, 182 hectares of crop and grazing lands left 1, 629,315 individuals in need of humanitarian assistance in Amhara, Tigray, Oromia, Diredawa, Afar, Harari and Somali regions.

In 2019/2020 Ethiopian fiscal year, ERCS has provided food and nonfood items support, early recovery and rehabilitation services, Covid-19 protection and mitigation services, ambulance and first aid services, Psycho Social Support, and restoring family link services, to over 36 million individuals spending over 700 million Ethiopian Birr.

Moreover ERCS Mekele Branch has been providing water trucking benefiting over 200, 000 residents with the cost of 30 million Ethiopian Birr.

According to ERCS assessment on the current conflict and violence on the ground, a total of 2.53 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance in Tigray, Amhara, SNNP and Benishangul-Gumuz regions which requires 9 Billion Ethiopian Birr to provide general and supplementary food, non-food items water and sanitation services, essential shelter, health care facilities, psycho social support, and livelihood recovery.

ERCS said donors can contact the headquarters in person or extend their support CBE Addis Ababa branch via account no. 1000000902008 to ERCS Humanitarian Fund. For online donation, ERCS puts the following contact address https://donate.bankofabyssinia.com/dashboard/ercs.php