BANGKOK – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is working to deliver food to more than 200,000 people in the most flood-affected parts of Myanmar. Efforts are underway to provide emergency assistance in Bago, Chin, Kachin, Magway, Mon, Rakhine and Sagaing, where many communities are still cut off by high waters and damaged roads.
Working with the Government, UN agencies and local NGOs, WFP has now reached 82,000 people with food since the start of the response on 2 August. The Government, local airlines Air KBZ, Golden Myanmar Airlines and Myanmar National Airlines are assisting with free transport of WFP’s food to areas inaccessible by road.
Flooding and landslides caused by heavy monsoon rains have affected more than a quarter of a million people in 12 out of Myanmar’s 14 states and nearly 208,000 people are now estimated to be in need of immediate food assistance. Both of these figures are expected to rise as further information becomes available.……
