Regional News of Saturday, 21 August 2021Source: gna.org.ghThe Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is to provide relief items to a number of victims of floods recorded in the year 2020 in the five regions in the north to alleviate their plight. The relief items will include; the construction of 20 shelter and settlement, donation of food and non-food items including; cereals to 4,000 people, construction of some boreholes and handwashing supplies to reduce the risk of water-borne diseases in the targeted communities. The move was in partial fulfillment of the mandate of ECOWAS as a regional organisation to respond to humanitarian disasters wherever they happened within the West Africa sub-region. Many victims are still displaced and living on the benevolence of families and friends. Though some of the needs were met, a lot more was yet to be served due to limited resources, hence the ECOWAS’ Post Flood Humanitarian Intervention Project to assist to provide relief for the rest of the 2020 flood victims in the five regions.

Source: GhanaWeb August 20, 2021 19:52 UTC