HC Deb 29 June 1992 vol 210 c370W
Mr. Steinberg

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement concerning the progress of Overseas Development Administration projects to protect the health of the Yanomami tribe.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

In 1990 we provided through Oxfam a grant of £90,000 to the Campaign for the Creation of a Yanomami Park, a Brazilian non-governmental organisation, to fund the provision of equipment, salaries, communication and travel costs for a health care project in the Demini area of what is now Yanomami national park. The agreed activities have been successfully completed.

We have this year agreed a second grant through Oxfam, of £175,000, for a new phase of the project which will, among other things, help to support a team of medical staff in the reserve and establish a second health post in addition to that presently operating at Demini.

We have also indicated to the Brazilian authorities our willingness to consider support for government work to provide health services to the Yanomami.

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