Save the Children provides cash for Wutip affected families

Thursday 10 July 2014

Save the Children has provided cash for 500 poor households who were severely affected by the Wutip typhoon last September in the central province of Quang Binh, Vietnam.

The cash is donated from late June to early July to support more than 1,800 people, almost half of them are children, in four worst hit districts of Bo Trach, Tuyen Hoa, Quang Trach and Ba Don town to recover their production and improve their livelihoods after having been stricken by the storm which was reported to kill nine people and destroy major infrastructure of the province.

The total donation worth 1 billion Vietnam dong (US$50,000) is part of Save the Children’s -700,000-euro ($955,150) programme for Nari and Wutip affected communities in Quang Binh from  April to December this year.

Next month, Save the Children will provide construction materials for 210 affected families in the four targeted district to repair their damaged houses and provide water filter devices and water containers for 320 households in the same communities.

The Wutip typhoon struck the central coast on 30th September, severely damaging schools, homes and other local infrastructure. Four days later, Save the Children began providing education materials and toiletries for families living in communes along the provincial shoreline.

  “Humanitarian response is one of Save the Children’s priorities,” said Gunnar Andersen, the Country Director of Save the Children in Vietnam.

 “Apart from providing immediate relief in the aftermath of a natural disaster, we always support children and their families to overcome longer-term effects, so local people can return to normal life as soon as possible.”

 Save the Children has worked in Vietnam since 1990 and has responded to all major emergencies in the country over that period. Most recently, the aid agency reacted to flooding in Binh Dinh and Quang Ngai provinces, delivering school materials, basic household items and cash grants to the worst affected families with children.