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Coronavirus: UK charities launch appeal to help world’s most vulnerable countries
Jul 14, 2020
An appeal to help the world's most vulnerable through the coronavirus pandemic has been launched by the UK's Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC).
Fourteen charities - including Oxfam, Christian Aid, Islamic Relief and the British Red Cross - will join together to ask the British public to donate.
The UK government will double the first £5m of donations.
Much of the money will go to refugee camps, where overcrowding and poor sanitation allows the virus to spread.
The DEC, which is made up of 14 of Britain's largest aid charities, will spend donations on providing food, water and medical care to people in countries such as Syria, Yemen and South Sudan.
Other target countries are Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan and the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.
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The DEC estimates there are 24 million internally-displaced people in these countries. A further 850,000 Rohingya people have fled violence to live in Bangladesh's camps.
Donations will also be spent on providing soap to vulnerable families and on providing information about the dangers of the spread of the disease.
International Development Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan said: "Clean water and healthcare in refugee camps are essential in containing coronavirus in the developing world - helping stop the spread of the pandemic and protecting the UK from further waves of infection."
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