Oxfam funds typhoon victims
US $220,000 of Oxfam funding has been approved for the first relief phase, providing more than seven thousand most affected and vulnerable households with immediate cash grants to buy nutritious food and other basic needs, said Oxfam Vietnam.
They said consideration would also be used for activities such as cleaning wells to help villagers get better access to safe water, and providing hygiene and sanitation information and support to reduce public health risks from communicable diseases and contaminated water supplies.
This new project is planned to consist of two phases implemented over the next eight months in the 12 communes in two mountainous districts, Vu Quang and Huong Khe.
The second phase of the project plans to focus on rehabilitation activities, helping the most affected households to restore their farmland or vegetable gardens, ready for the coming crops.
“The project aims to support the local government response and to work in partnership with them,” said Mr Provash Mondal, Oxfam Humanitarian Programme Co-ordinator in Vietnam.
Vietnam’s Typhoon No 2 brought heavy rains causing severe flooding in the six provinces, killing dozens of people. Ha Tinh and Quang Binh in the Northern Central region were the hardest hit provinces.
The flood was reported as the most devastating since 1944. About 130,000 people or ten percent of the resident population have been severely affected by the floods in Ha Tinh, with 80% of these people inhabiting the mountainous districts of Vu Quang and Huong Khe.
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