Sunday, December 3, 2017

Aid from India reaches Hindu families in Rakhine



December 2, 2017
Aid from India reached Hindu families in Maungtaw yesterday who are currently being sheltered at an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Sittway.

The chairman and members of the committee in charge of aud to IDPs delivered the supplies to 155 Hindu families at the camp established at the Danyawady Sports Ground.

The aid distributed to the families includes 155 family beds, soap, biscuits, cooking oil and, 156 mats given by private donors. The humanitarian aid from India arrived in Yangon on a cargo ship on 25th November. The Indian Ambassador to Myanmar Mr. Vikram Misri handed over a relief consignment of 3,000 family bags for Rakhine State to Dr. Ko Ko Naing, Director-General of the Relief and Resettlement Department of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement. “We will transfer the aid to the Rakhine State Government as soon as possible, and they will deliver the aid to the people without discrimination,” said Dr Ko Ko Naing. The 3,000 family bags worth 4 million Indian rupees includes rice, cooking oil, salt, dried noodles, biscuits, peas, mosquito nets and soap. The people of India previously donated aid to the people in Rakhine in 2015, 2016 and on 6th June 2017.

Tin Tun (IPRD)
Ref; The Global New Light of Myanmar

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