Start Network [to 4 April 2015]

Start Network [to 4 April 2015]
http://www.start-network.org/news-blog/#.U9U_O7FR98E
[Consortium of British Humanitarian Agencies]

Start Fund provides £100,000 for Tanzania flood response
March 30, 2015
Posted by Tegan Rogers in News.

Last week the Start Fund disbursed £100,000 for response to the recent flooding in Tanzania. A local project selection committee composed of Start Network member agency staff met in Dar es Salaam on Saturday 21 March and agreed to award the funds to Oxfam and World Vision, who will work together to help 3,573 crisis affected people.
The Start Fund was alerted on March 18 by World Vision, following heavy rain and storms in Tanzania earlier in the month which have severely affected the Northwest of the country. The ACAPS briefing note produced following the alert described how the floods have affected up to 5000 people in three villages in Kahama district, Shinyanga region…