Help The Aged Calls For 500,000 Pounds To Help Older People In Bangladesh Recover From “Forgotten Tsunami”

The devastation and suffering in Bangladesh caused by Cyclone SIDR are similar to the aftermath of the Asian tsunami, but three months on, leading older people’s charities are warning that funds for rehabilitation for survivors of this second Asian disaster are insufficient for the scale of the calamity.Today Help the Aged and HelpAge International announced that they have been able to directly meet the immediate needs of 5,000 older people and their families.

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Filed under: Aid / Disasters on February 19th, 2008