1,000 flood-hit households get cash, health kits

RDRS Bangladesh launched distribution of cash money and Covid-19 sensitive health kits among 1,000 flood-hit vulnerable households in two upazilas of Rangpur on Monday afternoon.

The cash money and health kits are being distributed under flood response activities of RDRS Bangladesh with the support of Start Fund Bangladesh funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).

Under the program, each of the selected flood-hit 1,000 families, who were affected by the sudden flood in the last week of October this year, of Kawnia and Gangachara upazilas of Rangpur are getting the assistance. 

Each of the households is getting Tk 3,000 in cash and Covid-19 sensitive health kits including 10 pieces of toilet soap, 1.50 kgs of detergent powder, one piece of bucket with lid and tape, one bowl, one plastic mug, 50 pieces of surgical masks, one packet of sanitary napkin to meet their basic needs.

On the inaugural day, 100 households of remote Char Gonai village in Tepamadhupur union of Kawnia upazila got the cash and Covid-19 sensitive health kits in a function arranged at the village.