UNICEF also provided children's winter boots, student kits, ambulances, generators and medical equipment to the earthquake zone.
Over 4,000 metric tonnes of school supplies have been moved into Southern Sudan, including student kits, resource materials for teachers and recreation kits.
In the coming days UNICEF will deliver 200 large school tents, 60,000 student kits and 2,000 teacher kits to Longnan prefecture.
- UNICEF Executive Director, Carol Bellamy UNICEF started producing 15,000 student kits in its Copenhagen warehouse at the end of June, at the unprecedented rate of 2,500 kits per week.
At the request of relevant authorities UNICEF is also preparing to supply 2,000 children's winter boots, 5,000 student kits and shoulder bags, 500 blackboards, ambulances, generators and medical equipment.
Quake-prone region At the request of the authorities, UNICEF is preparing to supply 2,000 children's winter boots, 5,000 student kits and shoulder bags, and 500 blackboards – as well as ambulances, generators and medical equipment – in the earthquake zone.
Despite the difficult conditions, the Ministry of Education's Logistics Centre in the capital has now prepared tens of thousands of student kits, containing materials such as exercise books, pens, pencils and other stationery for more than 2 million children, as well as teacher stationery kits for 94,000 teachers, which have now arrived in the provinces.
The mission was timed to coincide with the second of UNICEF's several shipments of 5,000 student kits, 5,000 sets of children's winter jackets, trousers and socks, and 2,000 pairs of children's boots – all distributed to children in Yushu and Chenduo Counties from 9 to 13 May.
It was gorgeous, like a gentleman's club, with students kitted out like Sebastian Flyte (this was the 1980s, when everyone was intoxicated by the TV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited) seated in comfy armchairs, languidly leafing through books on the baroque.
The concept is making its way over to the UK, led of course by Amazon.co.uk which sells a student survival kit.
