{"id":46375,"date":"2014-08-14T08:16:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T08:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=b3669508cb73cc7ca8f61b065a6dcf7e"},"modified":"2014-08-14T08:16:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T08:16:00","slug":"press-release-new-uk-aid-supplies-delivered-to-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=46375","title":{"rendered":"Press release: New UK aid supplies delivered to Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The UK has delivered a fourth round of emergency assistance to northern Iraq following two further successful deliveries of UK aid overnight, International Development Secretary Justine Greening announced today.<\/p>\n<p>Over four nights, the UK has successfully delivered a total of seven air drops of clean water, shelter and solar lamps with mobile phone chargers to help thousands of displaced Iraqi people. <\/p>\n<p>Justine Greening said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The British people can be proud that much-needed aid supplies from the UK are getting through to help vulnerable people in northern Iraq who are facing terrible conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">After last night the RAF has successfully made seven drops, including thousands of containers filled with clean water that can also purify dirty water and hundreds of shelter kits to provide shade from the scorching heat.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The latest supplies dropped overnight on Mount Sinjar included two RAF C130 consignments with a total of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2,400 reusable water purification containers filled with clean water (13,200 litres of water in total); and<\/li>\n<li>480 shelter kits to provide shade in temperatures of over 40\u00b0C.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The successful air drops over Mount Sinjar began on August 9, following an announcement last week by Justine Greening of \u00a38 million in new assistance for those displaced in Iraq.<br \/>\nIn addition to last night\u2019s drop, the aid deliveries include: <\/p>\n<p>Saturday 9 August: 1,200 reusable water containers, providing 6000 litres in total, and 240 solar lanterns that can also be used to recharge mobile phones overnight<\/p>\n<p>Monday 11 August: 3,180 reusable water purification containers filled with clean water (15,900 litres of water in total) and 816 solar lamps which can also be used to charge mobile phones <\/p>\n<p>Tuesday 12 August: 2,640 reusable water purification containers filled with clean water (13,200 litres of water in total) and 528 shelter kits to provide shade in temperatures of over 40\u00b0C<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/iraq-uk-government-response\">See a summary and latest updates on the UK government\u2019s repsonse to the Iraq crisis<\/a><\/p>\n<h4 id=\"notes-to-editors\">Notes to Editors<\/h4>\n<p>The \u00a313 million committed by the UK to Iraq includes: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a32 million of emergency humanitarian supplies for 75,000 people, including aid that can be air dropped to help those trapped in the Sinjar Mountains as quickly as possible. Supplies will include reusable filtration containers filled with clean water, tarpaulins and basic shelter equipment, and solar lights that can also recharge mobile phones to enable communication; <\/li>\n<li>\u00a33 million of fast-tracked funding that will go to charities and NGOs who are already on the ground and helping displaced people in northern Iraq. This will go via DFID\u2019s Rapid Response Facility, which has now been activated to deal with the crisis;<\/li>\n<li>\u00a32.5 million of support for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to provide immediate medical and humanitarian assistance; and<\/li>\n<li>a further \u00a3500,000 that will ensure Kurdish and UN systems are able to coordinate and respond to humanitarian needs in the region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"contact\" id=\"contact_5\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Press office<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:pressoffice@dfid.gov.uk\">pressoffice@dfid.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Telephone<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7023 0600\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"comments\">Follow the DFID Press office on Twitter &#8211; @DFID_Press<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two more aid flights have dropped supplies onto Iraq&#8217;s Mount Sinjar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46387,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46375\/revisions\/46387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}