RoK offers 300,000 USD worth of cash relief to flood-hit central Vietnam
Ambassador of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Park Noh-Wan on October 29 handed over 300,000 USD in cash from the RoK government to Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Hoang Hiep to help flood-hit provinces in central Vietnam.
Ambassador of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Park Noh-Wan (third from the left) on October 29 hands over 300,000 USD in cash from the RoK government to Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Hoang Hiep (third from the right) to help flood-hit provinces in central Vietnam.
Hanoi(VNA) – Ambassador of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Park Noh-Wan on October 29handed over 300,000 USD in cash from the RoK government to Deputy Minister ofAgriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Hoang Hiep to help flood-hit provinces in central Vietnam.
Deputy MinisterHiep thanked the RoK for its kind gesture to Vietnamese people who aresuffering hardships caused by natural disasters.
The financialassistance will be properly used to help affected people, he pledged, addingthat several options are being considered, including cash relief, financialsupport for house repairing and development of local-level storm and floodwarning systems.
Since October 6,downpours brought by storms Linfa and Nangka caused record flooding and seriouslandslides on a wide scale in the central region of Vietnam. As of October 25,the death toll during the disaster reached 130, with 18 still missing.
Some 150,000 floodsurvivors in the region will be in urgent need of food aid over the next fiveto six months, while 110,000 vulnerable people will require support to recovertheir livelihoods and agricultural production, according to a report of theDisaster Risk Reduction Partnership (DRRP).
The report shows thataround 7 million people in affected areas are living in temporary shelters orin vulnerable structures or houses. Those whose homes were submerged infloodwater are not likely to return to normality for three or five weeks./.
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Ambassador of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Park Noh-Wan (third from the left) on October 29 hands over 300,000 USD in cash from the RoK government to Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Hoang Hiep (third from the right) to help flood-hit provinces in central Vietnam. 
