UNICEF Responding To Indonesian Earthquake - Focus On Immediate Survival Of Victims - Approximately One Third Are Feared To Be Children

UNICEF is preparing
emergency supplies to be sent to help victims of the earthquake in Central
Java, Indonesia.


The UN's Children Agency has deployed staff to Yogyakarta, hard hit by
the earthquake to assess the immediate needs of victims.


UNICEF has emergency supplies of tents, hygiene kits, health kits and
school supplies ready to be transported to the earthquake zone.
The supplies include: tarpaulins; essential health supplies, hygiene
kits; small tents; large tents; lanterns; collapsible water tanks; school
kits; school tents; recreation kits and school in a box school supplies.


The U.S. Fund for UNICEF is accepting donations via 1-800-4-UNICEF or
unicefusa.