COVID-19 response in Afghanistan and Tajikistan Financial support for earthquake relief in Haiti facility serves more than 15,000 individuals from PwC’s Global Ofifce for Humanitarian Affairs procured On 14 August 2021, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake Kawergosk town and surrounding villages. PwC is 100 temporary shelter units from the social enterprise caused widespread damage and signiifcant loss supporting the expansion of the PHCC to ensure Better Shelter to set up temporary extensions for 24 of life in south-western Haiti. The then-Prime local people can continue to beneift from its services healthcare facilities in remote areas. These facilities Minister called a month-long state of emergency while frontline health workers can continue working are supported by a leading international development as international aid agencies mobilised to provide in a safe, secure and sanitised environment. The agency, the Aga Khan Foundation (United Kingdom), in humanitarian support to those directly affected by expanded facility will be operational in early 2022. regions including Afghanistan and Tajikistan. They are the earthquake. PwC’s Caribbean region engaged its being-used for triaging, testing, treating, and raising staff, who wanted to support their local community. COVID-19 awareness. This resulted in a US$50,000 donation being made to local relief agencies, raised through a combination This initiative is continuing to help contain the virus by of contributions from staff as well as a donation from preventing the spread of the infection to other wards PwC Caribbean ifrms. within the hospitals, and providing sanitised and isolated spaces for targeted treatment and waiting areas. Expansion of Kawergosk Primary Health Care Centre in Kurdistan Region of Iraq Humanitarian support and environmental Political instability, conlfict, economic crises, and restoration, Greece the COVID-19 pandemic have severely damaged In early August 2021, wildifres in Greece devastated Iraq’s healthcare services delivery capability. While many parts of the mainland and neighbouring island refugees and displaced persons in Iraq can access of Evia - a catastrophe described as a “natural free primary healthcare services through camp-based disaster of unprecedented proportions”. primary health care centres and in public health facilities for those living with host communities, limited The PwC Greece team immediately reached out to funding and the pandemic have resulted in increased the Greek Government to offer its support. That offer pressure on health facilities. PwC, in collaboration was accepted - and today, the PwC Greece Advisory with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is supporting Leader, Kyriakos Andreou, is leading a large-scale pro- the expansion of a primary health care centre in bono initiative for the Government. The project involves Kawergosk that is serving vulnerable displaced the PwC Greece team undertaking humanitarian people, refugees and host populations. support and environmental restoration as well as animal relief projects, with an army of PwC volunteers The Kawergosk Primary Health Care Centre (PHCC) standing by ready to provide their skills and time to is a public health facility located in the town of Dispensing medicines at our medical camp in Balukhali Cox's Bazar. help with the rebuilding efforts when the time is right. Kawergosk, 35 kilometres from Erbil. The existing © Better Shelter 2018