27 August 2008:Children from South Ossetia will receive UNICEF school supplies
Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia, 27 August 2008. Today, on August 27 UNICEF office in the North Caucasus sends to Dagestan a truck with supplies for children affected by the conflict in South Ossetia. The Dagestan Republican health and education centre for children currently hosting displaced people from South Ossetia will receive 60 sets of school furniture including school blackboards, bookshelves, tables and chairs and also 205 sets of school supplies for children including schoolbags, pens, pencils, school diaries and exercise books. Russian EMERCOM and other state and international humanitarian organizations are supporting displaced people with food and essential supplies. However, new school year starts in less than one week and children have to go back to school. Rashed Mustafa, head of UNICEF office in the North Caucasus said: ‘It is important that children who found themselves far from home have everything they need to study. This will give them confidence that normal peaceful life is coming back.’ It was also agreed that UNICEF will renovate and furnish living quarters on one floor of a boarding school building in Alagir, North Ossetia for 100 children from South Ossetia. The children will both live and study there for the foreseeable future, so as to facilitate their studies UNICEF will also renovate and equip additional classrooms at the boarding school. ________________________________________________ For more information contact UNICEF Communications Officer Andrei Muchnik at: amuchnik@unicef.org or +7 928 796 6133
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