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Source BBC and UNDP Website
Parts of the Maldives suffered severe damage
by the tsunami
Private donors are being invited to "adopt
an island" under a UN programme launched
in the tsunami-hit Maldives.
Donations would be used to buy essential
building materials and employ workers in
house rebuilding schemes.
UN spokesman Moez Doraid said outside assistance
was needed if the aim of rebuilding one-third
of the country's inhabited islands was to
be met.
The biggest "adoption" would
cost $4.4m (£2.4m) and help more than
1,000 people rebuild their homes, the UN
said.
The cheapest, requiring $95,000, would
help 58 families on another island.
ADOPT AN ISLAND
Recovery begins with a home. Therefore,
the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP), with support from the Government
of the Maldives, offers private donors an
opportunity to directly support communities
to rebuild their homes by participating
in the ADOPT AN ISLAND initiative.
ADOPT AN ISLAND is part of a programme
to address the immediate and now urgent
need for shelter. By adopting one or more
of the 22 islands participating under the
programme, which are among the worst affected,
private donors can directly help people
to repair or rebuild their homes.
Click
here to get more information on 'adopt an
island' UNDP Programme
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