UN assistance for flood victims [January 13 2011]

The UN agencies have started assisting displaced people in flood hit provinces.

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is providing hygiene kits and waterpurification tablets as rising floodwaters threaten an outbreak ofdengue fever. Measures have been taken to spray mosquito breeding sites.

the World Food Programme (WFP) is providing emergency food assistance for over 400,000 flood affected people in the flood hit districts.