69 houses were destroyed on January 18, 2011 after a fire broke out at a café in Reussey Keo district, Phnom Penh. The fire started at 1:15pm and it took the firefighters nearly 2 hours to extinguish the blaze. There were no deaths or injuries caused by the blaze. However, police is still investigating the cause of the incident.

There are 96 families-419 people (217 females and 92 children). Among the 96 families there are 54 Cambodian families, 29 Islamic families, and 13 Vietnamese families. All of them lost their houses and their valuable properties and they really need the emergency aids to survive.After doing the assessment in cooperation between Caritas Cambodia and World Vision on January 24, 2011 with local authorities and village’s representative, the emergency needs of the victims’ families are shelter, food, water, clothes, medicine, latrine .., etc.

After the incident, the suffered families received assistances from the Red Cross, City Hall, the charity, and Caritas Cambodia. The aids include rice, clothes, money, blanket, mosquito net, mat, fish sauce, soy sauce, sugar, salt, tent, canned fish, plates, iron pot and water container.

On the same day of the fire day Caritas Cambodia provided some emergency humanitarian assistance to the victim’s families. Those aids included 96 boxes of water and 96 boxes of instant noodle for each family.

One day after the incident, Caritas Cambodia cooperated with the city hall and World Vision offered some more emergency needs to the suffered families. Those assistances were included rice, sarong, scarf (Krama), clothes, mosquito net, blanket, mat, water, fish source, soy source, canned fish, tent, salt, sugar and water container (from Caritas), 100,000 Riel (from the city hall). World Vision has also provided one bottle of the water for each family.