Australian Ambassador to Nepal Graeme Lade and United Nations World Food Program (WFP) Deputy Country Director Dominique Hyde are satisfied with the food aid distribution in flood-hit areas in western Nepal, the WFP said in a statement.
According to Sunday's The Himalayan Times daily, Lade and Hyde had visited Kailali in far-western Nepal, some 470 km west of Kathmandu, on Thursday.
Australia has contributed 424,000 U.S. dollars to the WFP for emergency food assistance to Nepal to deal with food scarcity in flood affected regions.
"The visit was an opportunity to observe the damage. I was impressed that food distribution in Kailali was proceeding smoothly," the statement quoted Lade as saying.
Over 26,000 people in western Nepal's Banke, Bardiya and Kailali districts have received food rations under WFP's emergency response operation in the affected region. Flooding has displaced over 22,000 families and damaged or destroyed over 70,000 homes across Nepal, it stated.
"The Australian assistance has enabled the WFP to respond quickly to feed flood-affected families, who are in need of food as they struggle to recover from the loss of their homes and livelihoods," Hyde said.
The food assistance is being distributed by the Nepal Red Cross Society and WFP staff. Additional donors to the WFP's emergency operation to provide food assistance to the flood-affected families in Nepal include the governments of Germany, Luxembourg and Spain, the statement said.
Source: Xinhua
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