
Plan China has dispatched 1,300 survival kits to boys and girls in flood-ravaged Shaanxi, a main province in China’s middle and southwestern regions submerged by heavy rainstorms and hit by landslides, which have affected over 900,000 people and damaged more than 1,200 schools. The handouts worth USD 40,000 went to children in the two severely hit counties of Zhouzhi and Huxian in the Shaanxi province, where Plan China has worked for over a decade. The distribution of the kits was made at a ceremony in Zhouzhi on 27th September. "It contains lots of things, and we are so excited to get those goods,” said Ting, a fifth-grader girl in Liu Tun Primary School in the Zhouzhi County, looking at cotton pants, underwear, shoes and toiletries in the bag. The kit also contains whistle, band-aid, raincoat, and sanitary napkins. Currently, there are still over 37,000 people living in settlements or houses of their relatives, and children’s life is badly affected by the whole situation. "Although our school was damaged and our houses are still full of water and quite wet inside, under the help from Plan China and the government, we are surely confident on rebuilding our home,” said Chen, a 12 year-old student of LiuTun Primary School at the ceremony. Second batch of relief goods recevied by 4000 boarding school children for the winter Since continuous rain happened frequently in some of programme areas of Plan China in this autumn, children, especially children of boarding schools, was affected and their |


