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KIT-BOX-DISTRIBUTION
3500 flood victims to get kit boxes in Gaibandha, Bogura
GAIBANDHA, Aug 3, 2019 (BSS) – A total of 3500 flood affected families of
two districts would get dignity kit boxes from a local non-government
organization Gana Unnayan Kendra (GUK) within few days.
The boxes would be distributed to the flood affected families of Gaibandha
and Bogura districts with the financial support of UNFPA (United Nations
Population Fund) without delay under Emergency Response for Flood Affected
People.
Of them, some 2500 would be disbursed to the flood victims of Gaibandha
district and the rest 1000 to the victims of Bogura district, sources said.
On Friday afternoon, the box distribution activity to the flood affected families
started in Gaibandha district in a function held on the premises of Dween
Mohammad Govt. Primary School of the union under Sadar upazila.
Field officer of UNFPA Dr. Kanis Fatema formally inaugurated the kit boxes
to the flood victims of the union as the chief guest while chief executive of
GUK Abdus Salam presided over the function.
After getting a kit box Julekha Begum, a lactating mother, expressed her
gratefulness to GUK and UNFPA for providing her with the kit box as it would
be utilized for carrying and reserving water side by side with keeping other
food items including rice properly.
Union parishad chairman Harun-ur-Rashid, local elite and NGO activists
including media men were present on the occasion.
Chief executive of GUK told the BSS that 1000 flood hit families of
Sonatola upazila under Bogura district would get the kit boxes from the
organization immediately.
BSS/CORR/MR/1130 hrs