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Around 100 million people are reeling from the effects of blizzards and heavy snowfalls in China's coldest winter in up to a century.
Snowstorms crippled seventeen provinces and regions in late January, leaving around 100 people dead and up to 1.5 million homeless in bitterly cold conditions. With crops and livelihoods destroyed, schools, homes and roads closed, and general food, water and power shortages, many of China's poorest people will feel the effects of the storms for months to come.
World Vision was quick to respond with distributions of warm quilts to families and children in four provinces. As well, they have restored power to around 60,000 people through the donation of generators to communities blacked out since Lunar New Year.
As well as continuing to provide relief supplies with an emphasis on families, World Vision will work in many affected communities over coming months to assess damage and help restore livelihoods and infrastructure. |
World Vision aims to donate quilts to more than 9,000 people struggling to stay warm in the remote and rugged mountain area of Zhenxiong County, Yunnan.
World Vision has reached 130,000 Chinese as part of an almost US$2 million response, following the worst snow storms to hit the country in decades.
World Vision staff distributed 15,000 quilts from a 40,000-strong consignment to Chinese school children and farmers who are enduring the worst snow storms in 50 years.
