The European Commission grants EUR1 million for victims of the floods in Bolivia

Continuous heavy rains since early January 2006 triggered severe flooding in Bolivia. The European Commission on 23 February 2006 adopted an emergency decision of €1 million to assist the victims. The aid was to target a population of 6,000 families, around 30,000 people, living in the most severely affected departments of the country. The funding was to be channelled through ECHO, the Commission’s Humanitarian Aid Department.

• Primary Source

BBC News: Rains hamper Bolivia flood aid, 16.2.06 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4719954.stm

ESO: Background information: Bolivia and the EU http://www.europeansources.info/record/relations-between-bolivia-and-the-european-union/

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