GENEVA (AFP) - The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has announced a revised five-year plan of action worth nearly 1.5 billion euros to assist victims of last year's tsunami.
With a total budget of nearly 2.4 billion Swiss francs (1.47 billion euros/1.75 billion dollars), the plan will concentrate on the reconstruction of housing and rebuilding livelihoods, with 54 percent of the funds earmarked for these fields, it said in a statement Thursday.
The plan includes rebuilding or upgrading homes, hospitals and clinics as well as water and sanitation systems, and providing psycho-social support and livelihood support to people affected by the tsunami which devastated Indian Ocean coastlines on December 26, it said.
