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Revised amount to be issued in two weeks:

Lanka receives over 20 percent of UN’s Flash Appeal

Sri Lanka has received more than 20 percent of the Flash Appeal of US $ 51 million in emergency funding of the United Nations and have called for more due to the heavy displacement and losses caused due to the second wave of floods last week, UN Resident Coordinator Neil Buhne said.

He told the Sunday Observer that the Flash Appeal was being modified taking into account the new needs due to the recent floods and the revised amount would be issued in two weeks. “We are very concerned about the impact caused by the floods and more than a million people have been affected twice and hundreds of thousands of them became displaced.

The UN system is providing immediate relief measures - non-food items, food and drinking water for those affected though the road access to continue relief measures has been damaged due to the floods,” he said.

Buhne said the impact of the second wave of floods on the people was more severe than the first. People need help to restore their livelihoods.

These people often return to damaged or ruined houses and use water from contaminated wells. Their crops - paddy, green gram, vegetables or fruits and livestock have been destroyed.

The floods came at the worst time as farmers often borrow money anticipating a good income from the harvest and now they may be in debt. For people with little or no land they were expecting most of their annual income by now”, he said.

He stressed the need to repair the irrigation systems to have a good Maha harvest soon. “ The damage to smaller tanks and linked irrigation systems is extensive with almost 100,000 hectares of land affected. This will affect some of the Yala crops and could affect next year’s Maha harvest too, if repairs are not done fast”, he said.

According to the UN Chief in Sri Lanka, the World Food Programme (WFP), has distributed six-days of food amounting to 340 metric tons for around 192,000 persons in Batticaloa, Ampara, Trincomalee, Anuradhapura and the Polonnaruwa districts.

“The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) despatched around 4,600 tarpaulins to the Ampara and Trincomalee districts,while the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) supplied 9,000 plastic sheets and tarpaulins for flood-affected communities in the Batticaloa and Ampara districts. The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) provided 400 tents for the affected districts”, Buhne said.

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