Last few days have been involved with meetings and coordination with Food and Agriculture Organisation( FAO) and World Food Programme ( WFP). We are distributing food packs to each of 9000 households in the mountain area including rice, pulses, oil , salt ,tea, sugar and spices. Also hygiene and medical kits, tools for building ( e.g. pick axes, shovels) and tarpaulins for immediate shelter.
The next step is to get the rice seed distributed, this has been acquired by FAO and we plan to distribute our share together with cultivation tools. This will be followed by vegetable seed and millet later in the season. One problem is that there is a huge demand for seed and only a limited amount available. The government also is stipulating that it must be accredited seed, not imported and no GM or hybrid seed so this is an extra strain.
The focus is now moving from immediate relief to the next phase of recovery. It is interesting to see that a lot of teams are now leaving e.g. US army going this week, and other groups coming. We are putting together our phase two proposals too and I am taking a lead on the livelihoods element.
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