Britain will continue to support Burma in the wake of the devastating floods sweeping the country by providing more aid supplies and helping with recovery efforts, International Development Minister Baroness Verma has announced.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been affected across several regions including Sagaing, Chin, Magway and Rakhine, with Kachin also affected.
The Department for International Development’s (DFID) disaster preparedness work in Burma has meant that more than 48,000 people have already been provided with high energy biscuits, while up to 20,000 people have received hygiene kits and supplies to treat unclean water.
Baroness Verma confirmed that £500,000 of contingency funding would be made available to support further relief activities and to help existing programmes adapt to meet the needs of affected communities. This could include providing emergency healthcare and shelter, hygiene kits and water purification tablets as well as repairing damaged water supplies and sewerage systems.
