Pakokku, 21 November

An event to provide cash aid and construction materials to people whose homes became relocated due to riverbank erosion was held at the meeting room of the Township Disaster Management Department in Pakokku Township, Magway Region on 21 November.

Under this cash aid program, 21 families whose homes became relocated due to riverbank erosion were provided over Ks. 2.29 million for purchasing rice and construction materials.

 A total of 95 people from 21 families in Pakokku Township were evacuated to safer places as the danger of the Irrawaddy riverbank erosion on November 16 this year.—Ko Zaw(Chemistry)

Translated by JT