< img src ="https://panorama.am/news_images/781/2340755_3/f5f2d5c83341d1_5f2d5c833421c.thumb.jpg"> A disastrous hailstorm hit the city of Gyumri in Armenia in mid-July, followed by floods that triggered significant damage to real estate and facilities. In reaction, the European Union is offering EUR80,000 in humanitarian financing to help the most affected individuals, the EU Delegation to Armenia reports.
This EU financing supports the Red Cross in providing much needed relief aid, consisting of cash help to help the most susceptible cover their instant standard needs such as food and health items; coupons for clothes; and the circulation of bed mattress, pillows, blankets and bedding.
The humanitarian help will straight benefit 2,670 individuals whose belongings and homes were badly damaged or damaged by the hailstorm and subsequent floods. The funding belongs to the EU’s overall contribution to the Catastrophe Relief Emergency Situation Fund (DREF) of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).
On 13 July 2020, a heavy hailstorm hit Gyumri, Armenia’s 2nd biggest city. Whilst the nation has consistently faced hailstorms in the past, the most current one was unprecedented in its scale and impact on the metropolitan area. About 1,000 families were affected, out of which 600 (2,670 persons) still reside in container-housing that was developed as ‘temporary shelters’ following a disastrous earthquake in 1988. These homes are thought about critically susceptible and require instant humanitarian help.