COAST Foundation has given relief assistance to 4875 families in Feni, one of the most affected districts in the floods that hit eastern parts of Bangladesh last August.
COAST started providing cooked food and other assistance on its own from the second day of the flood. Shapla Neer, a Japanese International Non-Governmental Organization (INGO)currently working in Bangladeshextended the humanitarian assistance to support flood affected people in Feni. Japanese donororganization Japan Platform was involved in this relief work worth a total of Tk 3.58 crore.With the financial support, COAST Foundation providedthe assistance with two relief packages (food and non-food items) to 4,875.
This assistance was provided to a total of 3749 families in Mirzanagar and Chitlia Union of Parshuram Upazilaof and 1126 families in Darbarpur Union of FulgaziUpazil of Feni district. COAST Foundation, with the help of Parshuram and Fulgazi Upazila administrations and the concerned selected these 4,875 families as the most affected and poor families for relief assistance through a field survey and verified by the internal mechanism to select the most vulnerable one.
The food package included 25 kg of rice, 4 kg of pulses, 2 kg of salt, 4 kg of oil, 1 kg of sugar, 4 kg of flour, 3 kg of potatoes and 10 packets of food saline. The non-food items included 1 mosquito net, 2 hand washes, 3 bath soaps, 2 kg of laundry detergent, 1 pitcher, 2 food plates, 3 water purification tablets and 1 towel.With this relief package a total of 9750 sanitary pads are being distributed to 4875 female students of local schools and colleges.
On the first day of the relief program, held at MirzanagarTouhid Academy, COAST Foundation Deputy Executive Director Sanat Kumar Bhowmik, Shapla Neer Tokyo Representative Hiromi Katsui, YusukiTakasina, Shapla Neer Bangladesh Country Director Tomoko Uchiyama, Coordinator Md.Anisuzzaman, Parashuram Police Station SI Kamal, local civil society representative Shahed AmanChowdhury and local dignitaries were present on the first day of the relief program.
During the distribution of relief program, Uchiyama said, "We welcome your efforts to overcome the damage caused by the terrible floods. Shapla Neer is trying to be by your side in this time of disaster, funded by the Japan Platform and implemented by the COAST Foundation."
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