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Earthquakes in Yunnan Province, China

October 24, 2006

More than 38,000 families in the Yanjin and Daguan Counties in China's Yunnan Province - two of the poorest areas of the country - require continued assistance in rebuilding their lives following July and August earthquakes and a series of aftershocks that caused widespread damage to housing, crops, and infrastructure. The relatively low magnitude, but shallow quakes (5.1 and 4.7 on the Richter Scale) killed 23 persons, injured 37, destroyed 1,400 homes and damaged another 38,000.

The poor people who lived in houses constructed of stone and earth mostly on hillsides in the mountainous terrain still need relief supplies (i.e. clothes, quilts, tents) as winter approaches as well as help rebuilding and repairing their homes.

Church World Service is issuing an appeal to support an Action by Churches Together (ACT) appeal for a program to be implemented by The Amity Foundation. Read more about the appeal.

Media Contact:
Lesley Crosson, CWS/New York, 212-870-2676;
Jan Dragin, 781-925-1526;

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