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World Vision began providing emergency assistance today to displaced civiliansmost of them women and childrenwho managed to flee to Georgias capital, Tbilisi.Our staff have been hearing some truly heartbreaking storieschildren who got out but their parents didnt, for example, said David Womble, World Visions national director in Georgia. World Vision provided essential food including canned meat with vegetables, pasta, canned fish, vegetable oil and iodized salt, along with emergency items such as bars of soap, toilet paper, wet napkins, towels, bed sheets and large woolen blankets to mainly women and children, who escaped the violence in Gori and villages in South Ossetia. The agencys relief team met one 36-year-old mother who escaped the violence from Gori with her two children: I have seen war, but what I saw today was terrible. I havent seen anything like that in my life. Click here to donate Posted by: OldSpook 2008-08-12 |
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