Save the Children provides financial support for families to recover from Typhoon Wutip.

Today, Save the Children is to start providing monetary grants to families who suffered loses due to Typhoon Wutip, which hit central Vietnam last September. The donations will be used to help repair houses and recover livelihoods.

 The grants will be distributed to 1,200 households and an estimated 2,400 children living in four disadvantaged communes of Quang Trach and Bo Trach districts in Quang Binh Province.

 The financial donation is the second distribution of Save the Children aid related to the storm and is part of a US$130,000 relief programme for affected families in Quang Binh.

 The 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.

 Letter of appreciation by Quang Binh Province (in Vietnamese):