Save the Children is one of few international humanitarian agencies working in Kyrgyzstan. They have been in the region since 1992 and are providing emergency relief supplies and will soon be establishing child protection programmes and health services. They have distributed health and hygiene kits to children and families affected by the violence. To date, 1,000 kits have been distributed to 5,000 beneficiaries, including Uzbeks sheltering in and living near a school in Nairman and displaced Kyrgyz women. www.savethechildren.org.uk/ Kyrgystan
12-year-old boy plays near his burnt house near the centre of Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan. His house was looted and burnt during the ethnic clashes in mid-June
Photograph: Ikuru Kuwajima for Save the Children
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