The fund comes from UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund or CERF. Heavy rains triggered deadly landslides and flooding in June that killed 166 people and injured many more in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Campaigns will be carried out to create awareness over shelter safety, prevention of sanitation and hygiene related problems and other fatal reproductive health situations. The UN Humanitarian Coordination Task Team or HCTT, with the support of Bangladesh government, previsouly developed a Humanitarian Response Plan or HRP, which seeks $10 million to bring urgent assistance to 51,000 people. START Network has also lent over $250,000 to Action Aid and World Vision Bangladesh, according to the statement.

Source: bd News24 July 13, 2017 15:11 UTC