Tajikistan 
Tajikistan: Appeal for earthquake rebuilding support(0)
London–While the international humanitarian community attempts to get relief to hundreds of thousands of survivors of the devastating 12 January Haiti earthquake, the Tajikistan government has appealed for support to build seismic resistant houses after some 7,000 people were affected by a 5.3-magnitude earthquake that shook the country on 2 January.
“CoES [the Tajik Committee of [...]
Tajikistan: Struggling to learn in cramped, dangerous classrooms
RUDAKI–Six months after floods hit parts of southern-central Tajikistan, damaging or destroying dozens of schools and other buildings, hundreds of students are still attending school in overcrowded and sometimes unsafe buildings, according to local teachers and officials.
One of the affected schools is in Rudaki District: “We have two classrooms in a damaged building. It is [...]