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Emergency Aid to the Congo DR
Congo, DR
Financing Type | Grants |
Category | Emergency Aid |
Focus Area | Multisectoral |
Approved | 22.01.2002 |
Signed | 22.01.2002 |
Loan Administrator | International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies |
Executing Agency | IFRCS |
Co-financiers | OPEC Fund |
Organization | IFRC |
OPEC Fund Contribution (US$m) | 0.10 |
Total Project Cost (USDm) | 0.10 |
The grant was approved to help purchase relief items for victims of the volcanic eruption that inundated the city of Goma with lava flows. At least half of Goma's 500,000-strong population lost their homes and, with most of the business district destroyed, livelihoods too have been compromised.