The European Commission will provide 2.5 million euros (about 3.3 million U.S. dollars) in emergency aid for the flood-affected people in Bangladesh.
The emergency relief targets 469,000 people in 15 affected districts focusing on the distribution of food items, providing drinking water, emergency shelter and healthcare to prevent water- borne diseases, an EC press release was quoted by local newspaper The Daily Star as saying on Monday.
The fund, channeled through the European Commission's humanitarian aid department ECHO, will also help the flood- affected people in the recovery of livelihood, water supply, housing, and sanitation facilities.
Stefan Frowein, head of the EC delegation in Bangladesh, said, "This humanitarian aid serves as a vital complement to the 8 million euros (about 10.67 million U.S. dollars) which the European Commission has furnished for UNDP-coordinated Comprehensive Disaster Management Program, which is designed to strengthen disaster preparedness in Bangladesh."
The devastating flood in Bangladesh, the worst since 1998, has claimed 783 lives and affected some 16 million people in 39 out of the country's 64 districts since late July.
Source: Xinhua
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