Floods : UNICEF donates supplies worth US $ 600,000 [February 10 2011]

UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), is dispatching more supplies to support communities hit by the floods, a statement states. Supplies includes 19,000 school kits, 10,600 reinforced tarpaulins, 60 drums of chlorine bleaching powder, 2,000 sleeping mats, water tanks (2,000 litre capacity each), water purification tablets and children’s clothes.

The new consignment of materials brings the total value of UNICEF supplies to Sri Lanka during the past three weeks to more than $600,000.

The supplies are mainly aimed at helping families to ensure they have access to safe water and an ability to maintain basic levels of hygiene.

Consignments of relief supplies from UNICEF have been handed over to local government officials for distribution to those displaced by the floods.