WFP Head of Area Operations, Hafiza Khan (centre left) and WFP Head of Sylhet Area Workplace, Md Mamunur Rashid (centre proper), distribute fortified biscuits to households affected by flash floods. 27 June 2024.
DHAKA – The United Nations World Meals Programme (WFP) is offering emergency help to communities affected by the extreme flooding in Sylhet and Sunamganj districts in northeast Bangladesh.
Beginning 27 June, WFP’s Sylhet Area Workplace, in help of Authorities authorities’ aid efforts, started distributing fortified biscuits to over 23,000 households to assist them meet their fast meals and dietary wants.
“Our precedence is to make sure that probably the most weak households, who have been already going through hardships and at the moment are having their lives and livelihoods upended once more by the floods, can meet their important meals and dietary wants,” mentioned Simone Parchment, Deputy Nation Director and Officer-in-Cost of WFP Bangladesh.
The devastating floods, brought on by steady heavy rainfall in each Bangladesh and the upstream areas of India, have affected roughly 1.4 million folks.
The distribution of meals help was carried out in partnership with native NGOs Mates In Village Growth Bangladesh (FIVDB) and Middle for Pure Useful resource Research (CNRS).
Following the distribution, WFP plans to proceed its response by means of money help for these 23,000 households and an extra 48,000 households that WFP has pre-identified as a part of its preparedness efforts.