Rapports

30 Aug 2011 11:55 By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis hit by heavy monsoon floods will be forced to spend the Muslim festival of Eid sheltering in schools or under…

1. Context of the assessment: Heavy rainfall during end of July and early August 2011 caused severe localized flooding in southern districts of Bangladesh namely Satkhira, Jessore, Khulna and Cox’s Bazar. As flood waters begin to recede,…

Caritas is appealing for 414,227 euro (US $596,569) to help Bangladeshi families stranded by severe floods. Incessant monsoon rains since late July 2011 have inundated 13 of Bangladesh’s 64 districts. The floods have driven thousands of people…

By Patrick Fuller 50-year-old Fazar Ali, is no stranger to the hardships caused by the heavy rains and floods that often engulf his village when the seasonal monsoon sweeps across Bangladesh. When flooding is bad, his home…

This Emergency Appeal seeks CHF 1,267,094 in cash, kind, or services to support the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) to assist 10,000 families (50,000 beneficiaries) for eight months, and will be completed by the end of…

Heavy monsoon rains in the Satkhira and Khulna districts in southwest Bangladesh have forced 700,000 people to flee their homes following the worst flooding to hit the area in eight years. ‘Food is required now for people…

Severe monsoon rains in Bangladesh have caused several major rivers to burst their banks, affecting more than 1.5 million people. With houses, roads and farms damaged across wide areas, hundreds of thousands of people are in urgent…

Heavy monsoon rains have started to cause havoc across large parts of Bangladesh, Pakistan and India with Nepal now facing severe floods. ActionAid programmes in the region have been placed on high alert and we are responding…

The new National Food Policy was finally adopted in August 2006 Context Bangladesh has made considerable progress in achieving food security, for example by increasing the annual per capita availability of food grains by 35% over the last…

DHAKA - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), with funding from the Australian government through AusAID, is providing urgently needed emergency food assistance to 57,000 people affected by floods in Satkhira, sourthern Bangladesh. "Thousands of poor…