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# UNHCR - Kosovo Crisis Update  1 Sept. 1999
# UNMIK Developments 1 September 1999
 

UNHCR - Kosovo Crisis Update  1 Sept. 1999
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KOSOVO

The first shipment of 1,000 winter tents arrived last week in Pristina and was distributed to UNHCR's different warehouses in the province. It is part of 15,000 winter-proof tents that UNHCR has procured, along with stoves. These tents will be distributed once the stoves arrive, expected this week.
     The tents are designed to support temporarily families whose houses have been totally destroyed and are uninhabitable — those in Category 4 and 5 under UNHCR's shelter program. Around 50,000 houses are in this category.
     The tents will be distributed to families who have returned to their villages and are meant to allow them to stay near their houses and get them through this winter. UNHCR is also looking at communal centers to shelter homeless Kosovars this winter.
     Meanwhile, UNHCR has so far distributed 6,000 basic shelter kits to enable home owners to temporarily weatherproof one room in their house before winter. The kits contain reinforced, heavy duty plastic sheeting for roof repairs, as well as translucent plastic for windows, timber, plywood, nails, staples, tape and tools.
     UNHCR is handling a third, or around 15,000, of the total provision of shelter kits. The European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO) is providing 20,000 of these kits and the U.S. Office of Foreign Development Assistance (OFDA) another 20,000. In all, the kits from the three agencies will benefit an estimated 387,000 people whose houses have damage ranging from 20 to 60 percent. At least four other organizations have pledged kits or prefab houses, bringing the total number to more than 75,000 kits.
     In another development, UNHCR signed last week seven more contracts, bringing to 21 the number of project agreements concluded since UNHCR resumed operations in Kosovo in mid-June. The new agreements signed include repair of 44 schools in Pristina, Urosevac, Pec and Gnjilane, community services assistance in Pec, Prizren and Djakovica, mine detection, marking and clearance in selected areas, cleaning and maintenance of wells and water systems and reproductive health activities in Prizren, Lipljan and Urosevac.

UN INTERIM ADMINISTRATION MISSION IN KOSOVO (UNMIK)
Developments today, 1 September 1999
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Catch-up classes held as schools open: At the UNMIK briefing in Pristina today, Deputy Spokeswoman Daniela Rozgonova announced that more than 50 per cent of the province’s 1,000 schools were to open today. She clarified that these were "catch-up" classes to complete the disrupted 1998-9 school year. The formal school year will begin in late October due to the need to repair damaged schools, and restore textbooks, furniture and supplies. UNMIK estimates that 130 schools were completely destroyed during the war; 151 severely damaged; 132 moderately damaged. Repairs to 190 schools are in progress. The Joint Civil Commission on Education did a rapid review of textbooks to vet them for hate language. Their next task is a complete review of the curriculum to produce an entirely new curriculum for the school year 2000-2001. The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has pledged that every effort would be made to ensure that all children would be back in school by the autumn.

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