Bolivia Floods Bulletin N° 8 May 9th, 2014 WFP response in numbers Highlights of the emergency N° affected people 325.000 √ In San Borja, 950 families have started to work on early rehabilitation of their assets under the N° people assisted 11.535 “food for work” modality: housing reconstruction, land rehabilitation for production and construc- tion of communal gardens. N° municipalities assisted 8 √ Fluvial transport suppliers are not available in Be- N° communities assisted 147 ni to transport food at the moment, as they are busy saving and transporting cattle. N° family rations distributed 37.835 √ Water continues to get down in Guayaramerín, N° metric tones of food distribu- 56,6 approximately 1 meter, and affected communi- ted ties have started to work on the reconstruction of their houses. Resourcing update Planned distribution Warehouse Municipalities People Needs 4.000.000 USD (8-14 May) (comunidades) Trinidad San Ignacio, Loreto, 23.600 Confirmed contributions: Santa Ana, San 100.000 USD Italy Ramón, San Joaquín, 869.436 USD CERF Puerto Siles, Exalta- 103.250 USD CERF Log ción, Trinidad 1.200.000 USD WFP SRAC Riberalta Guayaramerín, Ribe- 18.585 ralta, San Lorenzo, 200 USD Andean Valley Gonzalo Moreno, San Gap 1.727.114 USD Pedro, Villanueva Total 42.185 * 1.374.818 USD WFP loan to be returned. CONTACTS Paolo Mattei, Country director: [email protected] +591-72007545 Sergio Alves, emergencies: [email protected] +591-70130266 WFP humanitarian response Operational √ Given the unavailability of fluvial √ A total of 38,4 MT of food was delivered transport suppliers in Beni, WFP and to 6.775 personas en 54 communities of VIDECI coordinate the transport of food Trinidad, San Ignacio de Moxos and San from Trinidad to different destinations. Ramón municipalities. Family ration for a √ Repackaging of noodles continues to 15 day period consists of 1,7 kg of take place in Trinidad warehouse in canned fish, 6 kg of fortified biscuits order to better suit the cargo to other (salty and sweet), 2 lt of vegetable oil municipalities. 10 people, locally hired in and 20 kg of noodle. the city of Trinidad, are working on this √ Field visits of WFP representative to hold and plan to finalize the work over the meetings with local authorities and non weekend. government organizations in Rurrenabaque, San Borja, Riberalta, Guayaramerín and San Buenaventura. Mayors of these municipalities committed their support for the implementation of “food for work” “The biscuits have been of great support activities, mainly technical assistance, to our children, that are suffering the most during non food items and logistic support for this time, because parents are busy trying to reconstruct their houses food distribution. and rehabilitate their lands and do not have the time Logistics to prepare food on time. But the biscuits that WFP provided √ Support to the National Integrated is our children everyday food until we get the Information System for Risk time to prepare the food”. Management (SINAGER) with the Marlene Urquiza, Rosario del Yata community, organization of mapping and information Guayaramerín municipality. regarding 2014 floods within the From the field... Logistics Working Group. Pictures of the humanitarian response Date 09.05.2014 .