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In 2009, the European Commission also released €4.5 million for humanitarian assistance to the survivors of two devastating earthquakes, one in West Sumatra and the other in West Java. This was in response to the urgent needs for emergency and transitional shelter, non-food items, water and sanitation, logistics including transport, as well as coordination of the international humanitarian relief. These programmes provided assistance to an estimated 2 million people in the worst affected areas hit by the Sumatra earthquake.
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