Tom Fletcher, coordinator of UN Extraordinary Assistance. UN Emergency Coordinator: We will have to find new sources of financing and rethink our activities Humanitarian assistance The international humanitarian system is threatened, and housekeepers around the world are going through difficult times, today Tom Fletcher’s emergency assistant Tom Fletcher said at a briefing at the UN headquarters in New York. “This is not a learning alarm,” he emphasized. “We are overloaded, we do not have sufficient resources and are attacked, and last year was the most deadly year for humanitarian workers in history. But, of course, the people we serve are much more difficult, ”said the coordinator. More than 300 million people right now need humanitarian support, he said. “And therefore, the pace and scale of the reduction in financing, which we encountered, of course, are a seismic shock for our sector. Due to the fact that help is exhausted, death awaits many, ”Fletcher emphasized. ~ 60 > humanitarian programs stop now, he warned. According to Fletcher, 10 percent of NGO employees were dismissed during February. He said that the UN agencies and their partners have to make a difficult choice day a day, which of those in need of help. ~ 60 > in the coming week it will be decided how the humanitarian community to get out of the current crisis. Fletcher announced the response plan to current calls, which is based on the restructuring of the humanitarian sector. > 62 ~ our main goal should be extremely clear – to save as many lives as possible using the resources that we have with us There is 60 ~/Blockquote > ~ 60 > “When resources reduction, our main goal should be extremely clear – save as many lives as possible, using the resources that we have.” – he emphasized. ~ 60 > “At the end of this week on Friday I will receive detailed plans from all our humanitarian coordinators,” Fletcher also informed. All country’s country teams will have to change the strategy in order to cope with the new task. 60 > he noted that the UN agencies will have to find new sources of funding and “rethink” what they do. “We will have to win this again dispute in favor of humanitarian and international solidarity, ”said Fletcher.