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MCIC
Situation report Macedonia no. 20/2001 |
October 15-21, 2001
Skopje, October 22nd, 2001
HUMANITARIAN SITUATION
The Red Cross of Macedonia will published once a month the registry of
displaced persons.
THE HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE
Food
El Hilal distributed 60 tons of assistance, namely food and hygiene products,
to the villages of Lipkovo, Vaksince, Slupcane and in the Kumanovo region.
Health
No new activities in this period.
Shelters
A Macedonian Centre for International Cooperation team consisting of two
architects visited the villages in Tetovo area, where they estimated the
degree of damage to the houses and schools. The schools in Slatino, Glogji
and Neraste, as well as houses from the first and second category in Beloviste,
Rogacevo and Prvce have been evaluated.
The evaluation of the damaged objects in Matejce has also begun, where
MCIC should repair 180 first-category houses.
On October 16 the Lipkovo - Kumanovo bus line started was put to use for
the first time. It is organized by the UNHCR and the bus travels twice
a day.
On October 17, UNHCR distributed 300 toolboxes for people in the villages
of the Bogovinje region. These toolboxes contain blankets, mattresses,
plastic tarps, building tools, water canisters, cutlery and sanitary equipment.
El Hilal distributed 190 packages from the UNHCR for the people who returned
in Otlja, Orizare and Nikustak.
Water supplies and sanitation
No new activities in this period.
Schools and education
The solidaries with money ECHO is rehabilitating the schools in Otjla
and Neprosteno.
Humanitarian mine-removal
In the Tetovo regions, in the Dzepciste, Tearce, Vratnica and Jegunovce
districts, the mine search and removal on the roads and in the inhabited
places started on October 16. The terrain-clearance will be carried out
by two teams, consisted of 50 experts from Bosnia and Slovenia.
Protection and human rights
No new activities in this period.
Psychosocial activities
No new activities in this period.
Post-crisis rehabilitation
The Foods and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations arranged
distribution of the first shipments with winter wheat seeds and artificial
fertilizers, assistance for the Macedonian farmers from the regions struck
by military activities and draught. The project, which is supposed to
start tomorrow, is in coordination with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry
Waterpower Engineering, the Macedonian agricultural unions and the "Care"
and "Acted" humanitarian organizations.
The Foods and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations supplied
1.375.000 thousand dollars for project realisation. FAO will take part
with 400.000 dollars, while the American Government, i.e. the "OFDA"
organization, will give the remaining 975.000. The assistance will be
sent to 13,600 agricultural homes in Kumanovo, Tetovo, Gostivar, the northern
part of Skopje and to the draught-stricken regions. Each of these families
will receive 150 kilograms wheat seeds and the same amount of artificial
fertilizers.
MCIC had distributed 24 tons of artificial fertilizers for the villages
of Ljubodrag, Umin Dol and Novo Selo.
THE HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATION
Financing
On October 16 the Government of the Republic of Macedonia accepted the
suggestion to pass a law for changing the Financial Transaction Taxing
Law. This law started being used in order to compensate the budget deficit,
caused by the breached security-political situation in the country. This
law will be in force until December 31, 2002.
Coordination
The thirteenth meeting of the humanitarian coordination NGO.
On this meeting, the rapid action projects consultant from the UNHCR,
who made clear the purpose of this project, its criteria, the procedure
and the application deadline to the representatives of the humanitarian
coordination NGO. The UNHCR representative answered to the questions of
the present people. The organizations filed short reports for their last-week
activity. The SOZM representative said that the students accommodated
in the collective centres have not received schoolbooks yet. The Daja
representative pointed out that the displaced high-school students have
no schoolbooks, the travelling expenses for the students travelling to
Skopje have not been taken care of, and that the persons displaced for
two weeks are supposed to pay for health services. Several questions were
raised on the meeting, such as: trust restoration; a transport for the
displaced students free of charge; supplying students with winter clothes
and shoes; school books and accessories for the displaced students, because
most of the displaced students have not received school books yet, explanation
from the UNHCR, as well as speeding up the whole procedure is needed.
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