Food - MCIC Situation Reports

27 May - 9 June

The Office of the World Food Program cancelled its work on June 1.

The international Committee of the Red Cross continues with the distribution of food for all IDPs who have registration cards from the Red Cross.

20 May - 26 May

The office of the World Food Program will be closed by the end of May. The distribution of food for the IDPs, host-families and socially threatened persons will continue through ECHO until July. The distribution of food for the IDPs will continue until November.

13 May - 19 May

The IFRC and Intersos distributed food and hygiene packages for 3,636 IDPs in the Tetovo area.
 

1 April - 7 April

On April 4, the French embassy and the "Zegin" company distributed flour and medicines for 100 households in Lesok and 100 in Lipkovo.

The MCRC continues with the regular distribution of food packages for the displaced persons.

25 March - 31 March

In March, the MCRC distributed humanitarian assistance for 2,927 IDPs accommodated in the collective centers. Assistance from the winter program for micro-displaced persons was distributed to 3,337 persons in Tetovo and 197 in Skopje. A three-month distribution was carried out in the villages Malina Mala, Brest, Goshince, Lukare, Rankovce, Presnica, Strima, Alasevce and Runica, where assistance for 733 users was distributed.

18 March - 24 March

The municipality Red Cross organization from Ohrid provided humanitarian assistance for the first two months of this year to the IDPs accommodated in this town. The assistance includes food packages, hygiene packages and flour.

On March 20, the Tetovo Red Cross started with the distribution of humanitarian assistance for the IDPs from the Tetovo area. This assistance will cover 3,690 persons. Intersos provided the food packages, the American Red Cross provided the hygiene packages and the Danish Red Cross provided the baby packages.

The ICRC reported that the second distribution for micro-displaced persons included 3,753 persons, of whom 3,556 in Tetovo and 197 in Skopje. The March distribution for the collective centers including 2,870 persons has been completed.

11 March - 17 March

The Macedonian Committee of the Red Cross carried out distribution of humanitarian packages for 520 persons who live in the villages Malina Mala and Brest. The assistance is composed of flour, food and hygiene products and baby-food.

The El Hilal, i.e. its branch offices from Gostivar and Veles, donated five tones of flour for the displaced persons from Skopska Crna Gora and eight tones for the citizens of Lipkovo.

4 March - 10 March

ICRC started the second distribution of food parcels for 3.500 beneficiaries within their programme for "micro-displaced". The distribution was carried out in Skopje and Tetovo. The distribution of food to IDPs in collective centre is currently under way.

25 February - 3 March

The distribution of food for IDPs (Intersos) and persons who have returned (AAH) is proceeding regularly through the Red Cross of Macedonia.

18 February - 24 February

The branch of El hilal in Struga distributed 50 t of aid in food, hygienic products and clothes for the population of the municipality of Lipkovo. The branch of El hilal from Gostivar distributed 20 t of food and hygienic products in the villages of Ropaljce and Otlja. On February 20, El hilal distributed food and hygienic products parcels to 50 inhabitants of Bitola.

Red Cross of Tetovo concluded the February distribution of food and hygienic parcels to 3.690 families from this town.

The "Mother Teresa" humanitarian organisation from Struga distributed 18 t of food and hygienic parcels to the inhabitants of the Lipkovo municipality. The aid consisted of 10 t of flour, 300 kg potatoes, 1.800 kg of powder milk, 300 l of oil, 400 kg sugar, 330 blankets, 10.000 pieces of soap and 200 pieces of shampoo.

In February, ICRC distributed food to 2.871 IDPs accommodated in collective centres, as well as to 4.801 micro-displaced persons in Skopje and Tetovo.

11 February - 17 February

Humanitarian organization "Milosrdie" distributed humanitarian aid comprised of food to the displaced persons in the crisis regions and the residents in the villages in the mountains that were cut off for a longer period of time due to the heavy snow falls.

During last week El Hilal distributed five tons of food and hygiene products in Radusa on February 16, ten tons in Orizare on February 17 and 50 tons in Lipkovo on February 17.
The Red Cross of city of Skopje from February 11 to February 22 will distribute humanitarian aid to the displaced persons placed in the host families.

MCIC last weeek provided 150 tons of oranges in Skopje, Tetovo and Kumanovo region. Through the Macedonian Red Cross oranges for IDP’swere distributes, in collective centres, social institutions, and through local NGO’s to IDP’s in host families and for returnees in crisis regions.

4 February - 10 February

On February 8, the humanitarian organization El Hilal distributed 15t. of food and hygiene products for the people in the village of Orizare in the Kumanovo area. 

28 Januar - 3 February

The International Committee of the Red Cross during January distributed food aid to those IDPs accommodated in collective centres as well as to approximately 4,800 micro-displaced persons in Skopje and Tetovo. The ICRC food package contains 12 kilograms of flour, one kg of beans, 1 kg of sugar, 1 kg of rise, 1 litre of eatable oil, 0,25 kg of salt, 1 kg of macaroni, 0.1 kg of yeast and 0,25 kg of sardines.

The AAH distributed food for approximately 14,700 needy residents of villages in the conflict-affected areas.

The Intersos distributed assistance for 13,500 IDPs accommodated in host-families. The food packages contain 20 kg of flour, 2 kg or rise, 2 kg of sugar, 2 litres of vegetable  oil and 2 kg of macaroni.

On January 28, El Hilal distributed 10 tons of food for the Lipkovo municipality. The same organization distributed additional 10 tons in Slupcane on January 31.

17-23 December

The Ministry of Finance, through the Red Cross, started with distribution of food and hygiene products for IDPs accommodated in Tetovo. This assistance will cover approximately 5,400 households. The Development Bank of the Council of Europe donated the funds needed for realization of this project.

26 November - 2 December

The humanitarian organization El Hilal is distributing food packages for the displaced persons in the villages Malino, Tanusevci and Brest, 100 packages in each village, Mojance - 180, and Lavce - 200. On November 29, this organization distributed 17 tones of assistance in food (flour, rise, salt, sugar, macaroni, eatable oil) and hygiene products at Lipkovo municipality.

The Natira organization from Kumanovo carried out a distribution of 625 kilograms of flour for 12 families in the village of Presnica and 13 families in Kumanovo.

19-25 November

The El Hilal humanitarian organization distributes assistance composed of elementary food products and hygiene products to Lipkovo area - 12 tones and to the host families in Tetovo - 5 tones.

The WFP reported that 45,000 users would receive food assistance during November. InterSos and Action against Hunger cover the needs of the IDPs who are not registered by the ICRC. The ICRC continues to distribute assistance in food for the collective centers.

12-18 November

The humanitarian organization El Hilal distributed food and nonfood supplies for the inhabitants in the villages near Skopje and Kumanovo. On November 14 the Prilep branch of El Hilal distributed 2.5 tons of food and hygiene supplies in Aracinovo, while the Gostivar branch distributed 15 tons assistance for the inhabitants of Lipkovo. On November 15, 15 tons assistance of basic food and hygiene supplies were distributed in Vaksince.

Intersos continues with the distribution of basic food for 4,300 persons.

MPDL distributed basic food for the refugees and 1,000 families that sheltered them.

5-11 November

The ICRC/MCRC have completed the distribution of food products that included 8,000 users from the village of Aracinovo. Since the beginning of October, assistance was provided to 82,000 persons from the regions impacted by the crisis.

The WFP completed the evaluation for the needs of food, sponsored by ECHO and realized by Action against Hunger with support from WFP.

On November 6-7, the Spanish humanitarian organization MPDL carried out distribution of fresh food packages, donation from ECHO, to the collective centers in Katlanovo and Suto Orizari. The distributed food packages include milk, canned meat, canned fish, cheese and onions. 540 humanitarian packages were distributed in Katlanovo and 1220 in Suto Orizari. 600 packages for IDPs and 150 packages for host-families were distributed through the "Macedonia" organization of the Serb and Macedonian community in Macedonia.

29 October - 4 November

The branch of El Hillal from Gostivar distributed 10 tons of basic food products for the residents of the village of Vishtica on 1st November.

"Mesecina" from the region of Gorna Reka distributed 100 packages of humanitarian aid (food and hygienic parcels).

ICRC distributed food packages to 18,000 persons out of which 11,400 are for IDP that are sheltered in host families, 2,800 IDPs that are sheltered in collective centers, 3,800 for people who are from the crises regions.

22-28 October

The humanitarian organization El Hilal has distributed humanitarian aid of 43 tons of foods and basic hygienic products in Vaksince, Hasan Beg and to displaced families in Tetovo, on 22, 26 and 28 October.

"Klasje na dobrinata" has distributed family packages for 120 families in Skopje. A package contains 3 kilograms of flour, oil, sugar, rice, pasta, 10 soaps, 5 detergents ("Biljana") and diapers.

Teams of ICRC on 23 October visited Goshince on Skopska Crna Gora where around 200 persons who have returned to their homes need help.

15-21 October

El Hilal distributed 60 tons of assistance, namely food and hygiene products, to the villages of Lipkovo, Vaksince, Slupcane and in the Kumanovo region.

8-14 October

El Hilal continues with the distribution of food and hygiene products in the regions impacted by the crisis Last week, El Hilal distributed 75 tones in the villages Selce and Lipkovo, 7,4 tones to Drenovec and 16,5 tones in Dvorce and Radusa.

The "Milosrdie" carried out distribution of food packages for the collective centers: 96 packages to Olympic village collective center, 140 to Pelagonija, 230 to Stiv Naumov, 34 to Ranka Milanovic, 52 to Tome Senic, 46 to Partenij Zografski, 30 to May 25th, 47 to Zdravko Cvetkovski and 14 to Megjasi.

The MCIC distributed 10 tons of fooder to the villages Otlja and Matejce.

1-7 October

The Turkish Red Crescent Society, in cooperation with ICRC and the Macedonian Red Cross, donated 25,000 US dollars worth of food products for 1000 families displaced from the crisis regions.

El Hilal distributed approximately 70 tons of food and hygiene products for the villages of Vaksince, Matejce, Orizare, Vistica, Brodec, Selce and the Cair town district.

Natyra distributed 2 tons of flour for the people of Vaksince.

WFP evaluates the nutritive needs for the affected population (IDP in the collective centers, IDP in host families, people who have returned, as well as people which stayed ceaselessly in the crisis regions).

24-30 September

El Hilal distributed 20 tons food stuffs and hygiene articles for the Lipkovo municipality.
MCIC distributed a total of 8.7 tons of flour, 8.5 tons of animal food, 600 kg of sugar, 600 liters of cooking oil, 300 kg salt and hygiene articles to the villages of Lukovica, Urvic, Jelovjane, Jegunovce, Slatino and Lesok.

17-23 September

The humanitarian organisation El Hilal distributed mainly food products and hygienic material for the population in the crises regions, as well as in Aracinovo and Brnjarci. A total of 10 t of food were taken to Radusa, 20 t to Lipkovo 4 t to Germo, 11 t to Aracinovo and 3 t to Brnjarci.

ICRC distributed food parcels and floor to 160 families in the municipality of Sipkovica on September 18.

On September 20, UNHCR distributed 50 food parcels, blankets and tents to 50 families from the village of Ljuboten.

MCIC distributed aid for the inhabitants of the villages Ratae and Zilce on September 20. The aid consisted of 3.374 kg of floor, 810 l of oil, 540 kg of sugar and 270 kg of salt.


10-16 September

The WFP - World Food Program, in cooperation with AAH - Action Against Hunger, made an evaluation for the needs of food in the Skopje and Tetovo regions last week. They paid a visit to the villages of Aracinovo, Strasince, Dobroste and Vratnica.

The El Hilal distributed assistance in food, hygiene products for Radusa (3,7t.), Bitola (10t. of flower) and Tetovo villages Rogle, Cerovo and Selce (6t.).

The MCIC on September 14th distributed 8t. of elementary food products (flower, oil, sugar and salt) to 130 families in the villages Urvice and Jelovjane.

3-9 September

Convoy for Vratnica and Orasje.
The MCIC and Cooperacione Italiana - office for emergency interventions of the Italian Embassy in Skopje organized a convoy with humanitarian assistance for Vratnica and Orasje. The humanitarian assistance was composed of food products, vegetables, cattle food, hygiene products, baby food and dippers. The MCIC, through its partner Natira, also submitted assistance composed of food and hygiene products to the Lipkovo municipality.
The El Hilal submitted assistance in food and hygiene products to Lipkovo, Germo, Neprosteno and Ljuboten.

27 August - 2 September

UNHCR assistance for the displaced people from Ljuboten.
On the 29th of August, in the Cair town district, UNHCR distributed humanitarian assistance to 43 displaced people from Ljuboten village, near Skopje. The assistance consisted of blankets, mattresses, hygiene articles and kitchen supplies.

The branch office of the organization "Spike of Goodness" from Skopje started to distribute food assistance for the month of August to the displaced population of the crisis regions, sheltered in Skopje families.

On the 27th of August, the Natira NGO from Kumanovo started to distribute flour for 1000 families (25 kg for each family).

On the 31st of August, ICRC distributed assistance for the Tearce community (Neprosteno and Slatino), and the Lipkovo municipality. It comprised family and individual packages of food, wheat flour and baby formula.

20-26 August

Aid for the displaced persons.

A convoy for Vratnica, Jazince and Sipkovica.
On August 22nd, 4 domestic NGOs: El Hilal, Milosrdie, Klasje na dobrinata and MCIC organized a convoy of seven trucks with humanitarian aid for the denizens of Vratnica, Jazince and Sipkovica. Four trucks were intended for Vratnica, one for Jazince and two for Sipkovica. The aid comprised basic food, fresh vegetables, hygienic products and cattle food.

MCIC supplied basic food to the kitchens of the collective centers "1 Maj", "25 Maj" in Skopje and "Negorski Banji" in Gevgelija. It also distributed 25 tons of flour for the IDP accommodated in 400 families in Kumanovo.

El Hilal performs distribution of 610 packages with hygiene items, provided by DRC (Danish Refugee Council), for IDP accommodated in host families, 305 packages in Tetovo and 305 packages in Skopje.

The Skopje Red Cross opened storage where displaced persons that have a record document from any community organization, can take clothes supplied by numerous national humanitarian organizations.

SAZM (League of Albanian women in Macedonia) performs distribution of humanitarian aid for 103 families from private donations from Tetovo.

13-19 August

Aid for the displaced persons

An El Hilal convoy to Shipkovica. On August 14, after four months of isolation, the humanitarian aid El Hilal convoy, comprising five lorries (48 tons) elementary food supplies and medications arrived in the township Shipkovica. The aid is provided for the villages Shipkovica, Lisec, Gayre, Bozovce and Veshala, where, at the moment, there are about five thousand citizens, ethnic Albanians.

An ICRC convoy forVratnica, Jazhince and Shipkovica. On August 15 ICRC delivered aid for Vratnica and Jazhince including elementary food stuffs (24 tons of flour, cooking oil, yeast), while for Shipkovica it provided 900 family packs, 80 baby packs and 21.6 tons of flour.
MCIC delivere elementary food supplies for the needs of the common canteens in the collective centers "25th May" and "1st May" in Skopje and for the CC Negorski Banji in Gevgelija.

6-12 August

Aid for the displaced persons.

An MCIC convoy for Vratnica and Jazhince. On August 7th MCIC managed to supply aid for the denizens of community Vratnica after the unsuccessful attempt from August 4th. The aid comprised 15 tons of basic products. At the starting point (the gasoline station "Petrol company" near Tetovo) four of the six trucks went back because of the insecurity of the drivers in the road Tetovo - Jazhince. The convoy was stopped at the village Dzepchishte, from the local population, ethnic Albanians, and after two hours, was let through with mediation of the EU monitoring mission. The aid arrived for community Vratnica (for the villages Vratnica, Belovishte, Staro Selo and Rogachevo), inhabited by ethnic Macedonians, and a part was delivered in the village Jazhince (for Jazhince and Orashje), inhabited by ethnic Albanians. A part of the aid in fresh food (potatoes, paprika, cabbage) that was supposed to be delivered in Vratnica and Jazhince, was redirected to the IDPs settled in Pelagonija and Olympian village.

The Shipkovica convoy was returned. On August 11th El Hilal was supposed to supply food and medication for the community Shipkovica. Although it had all necessary documents and a permit from the coordination body for managing crises, because o9f security reasons, at the last police security point, it was not allowed to continue further.

MCKC convoys. The convoys planned for Shipkovica (with medications) and for Vratnica and Jegunovce (with food and medications) because of security reasons did not reach their final destination.

30 July - 5 August

Aid for the Municipality of Vratnica. In the convoy for the villages of Lesok, Neprosteno and Tearce, on July 31 2001, after 15 day of isolation, food aid was distributed for the inhabitants of the villages of Vratnica, Beloviste and Staro Selo.

Aid for the displaced persons. From August 6 to 21, 2001, ICRC and the Red Cross from Tetovo shall conduct its third aid distribution for IDPs registered in May and June 2001.
MCIC distributed food for the newly arrived IDPs in the collective centre in Dojran.

Humanitarian convoy for the Municipality of Lipkovo. After 9 days of waiting for permission, El Hilal distributed 62 tons of food for the inhabitants of the Municipality of Lipkovo. Aid provided the organization Mother Theresa as well. MCIC, through Natyra joined the convoy on August 1, 2001, and distributed 18 tons of food items and 10 tons of food for the livestock.

Klasje na dobrinata distributed food and hygiene supplies for 700 families in Kumanovo and 1780 families in Skopje. 12 tons of food has been distributed in Skopje.

23-29 July

Aid for the displaced persons. ICRC distributed humanitarian aid in the Panorama hotel for IDPs from Tetovo area, and also started basic food supplies and medicine distributions in the Tetovo villages, wherefrom inhabitants were forced out a week ago.

Red Cross of the City of Skopje started humanitarian aid distributions for displaced persons form Skopska Crna Gora, Tetovo and Kumanovo region. The aid has been distributed in the distribution points Momin Potok 2 and Nikola Vapcarov Primary School.

Natira distributed food parcels for 1453 displaced families in Kumanovo.

MCIC distributed food for the collective centre in Dolno Konjare (for 100 IDPs for 1 month), as well as the newly arrived IDPs from Tetovo area in the centres Pelagonija (450 IDPs for 1 week) and Stiv Naumov (300 IDPs for 1 day).

16-22 July

Aid for IDPs. The Red Cross of the city of Skopje started distribution of humanitarian aid for IDPs in the area of Skopska Crna Gora, Tetovo and Kumanovo. The aid was distributed in Momin Potok 2 and "Nikola Vapcarov" primary school.

9-15 July

Distribution for IDPs. The International Red Cross Committee provided humanitarian aid consisted of 950 parcels of food and hygiene supplies for the internally displaced persons (IDPs) settled in the collective centres of Cicino Selo, Zdravko Cvetkovski, Ranka Milanovic, Senic, Partenie Zografski, Dimitar Vlahov and Stiv Naumov. ICRC provides parcels with basic food supplies only for the first two months of the IDPs' registration. After this period, the provision of aid should be overtaken by some other organization. The Italian organization Intersos, financed by ECHO might overtake the provision of aid for 18,000 IDPs.

The convoy for Sipkovica waits for a permission. The humanitarian aid convoy for the villages of the Municipality of Sipkovica, organized by the ICRC and the humanitarian organizations "El Hilal" and "Klasje na dobrinata" still have not attained approval from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to enter in this area. There are around 5,000 inhabitants in these villages seeking humanitarian aid because of the two months limited access.

Aid convoy in Municipality of Lipkovo. On 12th of July, humanitarian aid convoy for the 14,000 inhabitants (ethnic Albanians) entered in the Municipality of Lipkovo. The convoy was organized by the humanitarian organizations Natyra (supported by ACT/MCIC), Jeta, Mother Theresa, Klasje na dobrinata, Merhamet, League of Albanian Women, and Flora. The aid consisted of 18 trucks with 40 tons of food, which is enough for 2-3-week needs. The aid will be distributed to the inhabitants of the villages of Orizare, Lipkovo, Otlja, Slupcane, Vaksince etc.

Aid for the displaced ethnic Macedonians. Through intermediation of the Macedonian Orthodox Church, on 12th of July in Tetovo from Germany, arrived 600 parcels of humanitarian aid for the inhabitants (ethnic Macedonians) from the villages of Setole, Otunje, Jedoarce, Varvara, Brezno and Jelosnik. These 2,500 persons were forced out to leave their homes by the extremists. Several Macedonian Church Municipalities, associations and individuals organized the humanitarian action.

3-8 July

Distribution for IDP. On the 6th of July 2001, MCIC provided food and hygiene supplies for IDPs in the two collective centres in Kumanovo: 170 IDPs in Crystal hotel and 130 IDPs in hotel Cuba.

In Cicino Selo, food and hygiene supplies were distributed for 99 IDPs from the village of Radusa.
MCIC considers the possibility of a wider response to the food needs of IDPs.

Humanitarian action. A great number of artists are involved in organizing humanitarian action for the IDPs from 1st of July till 1st of August. The paintings will be sold on an auction and the means collected will be for the children from the displaced families.

Aid convoy to Sipkovica Municipality. The working group of "El hilal" from Tetovo and "Klasje na dobrinata", since last Wednesday are expecting permission from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Ministry of Defence to enter in the Municipality of Sipkovica, 10 km away from Tetovo. The aid convoy has been stopped for security reasons.

24 June - 3 July

Distribution for IDP. The only organized distributions of food for the displaced persons, so far, are the ones of the Macedonian Red Cross in cooperation with the International Red Cross Committee, and MCIC. The supplies are distributed to the collective centres (MCIC provided initial aid in food and hygiene supplies for covering 20-25-day needs) and to all registered internally displaced persons (MRC/ICRC with standard packs of basic food and hygiene products).

Convoy in Lipkovo. The humanitarian organization El Hilal, on the 25 of June 2001, organized the second convoy for Lipkovo, an area with limited access (in the war conflict zone), with 15,000 civil population. The aid, consist of food (flour, sugar, oil) and hygiene supplies, was transported by five trucks.

Contributions of the citizens. Apart from this, many citizens are self-organizing themselves in the collection of food, cloth and other necessary supplies. The food is usually delivered to the religious institutions or municipalities, wherefrom it is distributed on to the collective centres.

The MCIC considers the possibilities of a wider response to the food needs of the internally displaced persons.

11-24 June

MCIC distributed humanitarian aid for the internally displaced people. Packages with food and hygiene products were distributed to 70 displaced families from Aracinovo in the Municipality of Ilinden. Each family obtained a blanket and a 25 kg bag with flour. MCIC also participated in the first distribution of humanitarian aid for Lipkovo. One truck of MCIC aid was part of larger convoy of humanitarian aid by different local NGO's.

Assessments of the emergency needs were done in the collective centres, or more precisely, student homes and public institutions, where around 800 displaced people are settled. Food and hygiene products, as well as equipment for socialization are needed in amount of 2 million denars (30,000 EURO) per month.

10 June

At the end of March and the beginning of April 2001, MCIC had organised the distribution of food and hygiene parcels for 3000 families in Tetovo, Kumanovo, Skopje and several other places, where displaced people were placed. The distribution was carried out by local partners.

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