LONDON (AlertNet) - Following is a list of non-governmental organisations responding to humanitarian needs in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Many are coordinating their assistance for the people of Bukavu from bases in Goma.

While every effort has been made to provide as comprehensive a list as possible based on the latest information, it may not be complete.

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Air Serv International - USA
*Providing air transport to Bukavu NGOs, using base in Goma.

Action Against Hunger – USA
*Action Against Hunger is running nutrition, health, food security, and water and sanitation programs in the country.

Action by Churches Together - Switzerland
*Appealing for $1,475,732 for relief and rehabilitation.

CARE International
*Supporting primary health needs by supplying medicines to health centers and hospitals, including medicine to treat diseases resulting from sexual violence; training health workers; rehabilitating water sources that fell into disrepair during the war; reintegrating into families and communities children who accompanied armed groups during the war; helping communities to have a voice in how the natural resources of their region are used.

Caritas Développement Congo

Catholic Agency for Overseas Development - UK
*Concerned about partner organisations following reports of death threats to staff in Bukavu.

Catholic Relief Services - USA
*Sent an assessment team to the area and planning to provide basins, buckets, casseroles, cups, blankets and soap to displaced people in a camp at Cyangugu as well as those staying with families.

Democratic Republic of Congo Red Cross
*Removing bodies from the streets of Bukavu.

European Union – Belgium
* The European Union is considering sending peacekeepers to Bukavu.

GOAL – Ireland
* GOAL is operating in the northern part of Katanga Province, providing support to three hospitals and 21 health centres, distributing seeds and tools to families and repairing the area's road network.

International Committee of the Red Cross - Switzerland
*Visiting hospitals to provide medical care, when security permits.

International Rescue Committee (IRC) - USA
*Monitoring needs in violence-affected communities and preparing to provide emergency water and sanitation assistance if needed. Regular programme activities are temporarily on hold around Bukavu and Kisangani but continue in other areas. Conducting needs assessment in Rwanda's Cyangugu Province for newly arrived Congolese refugees.

Lutheran World Relief, a member of Action by Churches Together
*Continues to provide relief to people affected by conflict in North Kivu and Oriental Provinces. Assisting refugee families across the border in the Rwandan town of Cyangugu with jerry cans, blankets, kitchen utensils, buckets, soap and some food.

Malteser - Germany
*Medical staff in South Kivu.

Médecins sans Frontieres
*A team in Bukavu, where MSF provides anti-retroviral treatment for AIDS patients, was forced to take refuge in the U.N. compound.

Merlin - UK
*Forced to temporarily reduce its medical teams in eastern Congo. Considers itself one of the largest NGO operations in the country, with projects reaching one million people.

Norwegian Refugee Council
*Forced to evacuate the organisation's two employees from Bukavu.

United Nations – Democratic Republic of the Congo
*Two United Nation peacekeepers died and seven injured after their convoy came under fire near Rutshuru in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. UN offices in Kinshasa have closed following angry anti-UN demonstrations.