Article from Catholic News Service, excerpt :
" DUEKOUE, Ivory Coast : The priest directing a mission where at least 30,000 refugees remain said he feared an outbreak of cholera if more aid is not received soon.
Food, water, medicine and sanitation facilities are in short supply for those who took refuge at a Salesian-run mission in Duekoue after armed fighting March 29 left at least 800 dead in this multiethnic city of 47,000.
"There is no food, people are sleeping on the ground, there is nowhere else to go, there are no toilets or washing facilities and we have no drinking water," Salesian Father Vicente Grupeli, director of the St. Therese of the Child Jesus Mission in Duekoue, told the Salesian news agency ANS.
The Salesian mission office in Madrid launched an urgent appeal for food, water, medical supplies and other needs.
The mission, the site of a vocational training center, a home for children and a youth center, suspended all activities to care for the refugees who have overwhelmed the facility, Father Grupeli told ANS."
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