INTERNATIONAL

FEDERATION OF

RED CROSS AND

RED CRESCENT

SOCIETIES

190 National

Red Cross and

Red Crescent Societies

Leaving

no one behind.

August 2017

Sierra Leone Mudslide

Area and Infrastructure affected

▪ Two districts most heavily affected (Regent & Lumley)

▪ 1,3 km of road damaged

▪ Up to 600 houses destroyed, 300 damaged

Source: DG ECHO Daily Map | 16/08/2017 ) Photo: Patrick Massaquoi on Twitter

1,600Families Affected

>600People Missing

>300Dead

People

Affected

Photographer: Mohamed Saidu Bah/AFP/Getty Images

Response

to date60

Volunteers:

Evacuations,

Search & Rescue,

First Aid, PSS

20Volunteers for

registration of

people affected

15+Vehicles for

evacuations

(incl. 3

ambulances)

Photo: Sierra Leone Red Cross

200Body bags

donated to

central morgue

Direct:

4’800 People

(800 families

4,637,689Mios CHF

Photographer: Mohamed Saidu Bah/AFP/Getty Images

Planned

Interventions

Indirect:

50’000 People