UK Provides More Food Security Funding For Malawi Flood Victims - WFP

The government of the United Kingdom has provided more than $2 million in food security funding to assist families displaced by flooding in Malawi, the World Food Program said in a press release on Monday

UNITED NATIONS (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 20th May, 2019) The government of the United Kingdom has provided more than $2 million in food security funding to assist families displaced by flooding in Malawi, the World Food Program said in a press release on Monday.

"As the Malawi Floods Emergency responses enters its second-phase running from April to June, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) has provided an additional �1.6m million (USD $2.06 million) to UNICEF, the World Food Program (WFP), Concern Worldwide and GOAL to support recovery efforts of families displaced by floods in the southern region," the release said.

The recent contribution will assist some 20,000 households in achieving food security and helping to restore about 7,500 livelihoods in the most affected districts of Zomba and Chikwawa, the release said.

Additionally, more than 21,000 of the most vulnerable individuals will receive cash-based transfers to increase the nutritive value of their food. Around 60,000 people will be provided seeds and agricultural inputs to plant a winter crop.

Over 1,000 people have been reported dead, and thousands missing in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi after the worst tropical cyclone in decades, dubbed Idai, unleashed its wrath on the eastern Indian Ocean coast in March this year. At least 600 people were killed in Mozambique alone, while about 240,000 houses were damaged and 111,000 buildings were completely destroyed in the country.