KATHMANDU, SEPTEMBER 3
The European Union (EU) is providing an additional Rs 89 million in humanitarian assistance to communities affected by the devastating flash floods in Nepal.
With the latest funding, the EU's total emergency assistance for the disaster has reached more than Rs 445 million (2.5 million euros).
The new funding will support a Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF) operation of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), led by the Nepal Red Cross Society. The operation aims to assist up to 20,000 people, or around 4,000 households, in Bagmati Province.
The assistance will cover emergency and transitional shelter, cash support, water and sanitation, healthcare, mental health and psychosocial support, protection and other essential needs.
The EU said the assistance comes as Nepal continues to respond to the catastrophic flash floods of August 26, which caused extensive loss of life and widespread damage to homes, infrastructure and essential services.
The EU is also mobilising relief supplies through its Civil Protection Mechanism. Germany, Luxembourg, Latvia and Sweden are providing shelter and hygiene items, forensic equipment and other supplies.
In addition, the EU is organising a Humanitarian Air Bridge to Kathmandu, with a flight carrying more than 80 tonnes of supplies from the EU's emergency stock in Copenhagen scheduled to arrive later this week.
