Sunday, 18 May 2014

Save the Children visit to Bijeljina

Early this morning, one team set off from Sarajevo to Bijeljina. They managed to reach Bijeljina after three and a half hours passing by a number of landslides on the road. The Save the Children assistance that was sent yesterday from Sarajevo reached Bijeljina in the evening and was sent to the most affected areas.

Today, the situation in the town is getting a bit better, the water is withdrawing from the main streets and the pumping the water out of the flooded premises has started. But still, there are parts of the town that are completely flooded.
A children's park in the middle of the town of Bijeljina completely flooded.
There are collective centers established for over 6000 people who had to be evacuated from their homes. There is growing concern because there is an order to evacuate some 10,000 people from the parts of the town called Batkovic, Brodac, Ostojici, Balatan, Valino Selo and all these people need to be accommodated in collective centers that have been set up in primary and secondary schools in Bijeljina as the flooding of these parts has started.  
Destroyed homes and greenhouses in Bijeljina.

Within the town of Bijeljina itself, the most affected are two Roma settlements Tombak and Kanal.
Collective centre Sokol dom in Bijeljina is now home to 100 families affected by the floods

What this area needs the most right now is food and hygiene products.

 

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