The National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) has disclosed that the World Food Program (WFP) has donated the sum of US$1.5 million for over 26,000 flood affected victims across Liberia.
Speaking Tuesday, September 10, 2024, Ansu V.S. Dulleh, Sr., Executive Director NDMA, said the money was donated to aid those who were affected by a major flooding incident on June 28, 2024 in Montserrado and Margibi Counties.
He said the WFP went in the field itself to see the actual happenings as compared with the data presented by the NDMA, and discovered that over 5,200 households by family heads were affected.
Each household is expected to receive the sum of US$45 for the period of four months to aid in procuring food and medications, and victims of the flooding have begun receiving their monies directly through mobile money transfer.
For her part, Mamie Sheriff, a beneficiary of the cash transfer, thanked the NDMA and the Government of Liberia and expressed excitement over receiving her first payment of 45 USD which was used to buy food, clothes and medicine for her and her family.
She praised the NDMA boss for being there with them from the beginning of the flooding incident and for being fair in the distribution of the funds, while calling on the international community to come to their aid, as they consistently are confronted with flooding in their various communities.
Meanwhile, the Government of Liberia has given the NDMA US$ 500,000 to pre-position humanitarian projects in the coming weeks; the entity is expected to distribute items to victims in Montserrado, Margibi, Grand Cape Mount and Grand Bassa Counties.
