Quang Nam hands over flood-proof houses to affected families
The central coastal province of Quang Nam has handed over five flood-resistant houses to families in Binh Dao commune, Thang Binh district, on May 31, which was seriously affected by typhoon Damrey in November 2017.
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Quang Nam (VNA) –The central coastal province of Quang Nam has handed over five flood-resistanthouses to families in Binh Dao commune, Thang Binh district, on May 31, whichwas seriously affected by typhoon Damrey in November 2017.
The houses are among the 80 ones built from March16 this year.
The project is part of an aid package of theGovernment of the Republic of Korea to assist typhoon-hit poor Vietnamese families’re-building efforts.
It aims to build 300 houses in the three centralprovinces of Khanh Hoa, Phu Yen and Quang Nam.
The project is jointly carried out by the UNDevelopment Programme (UNDP), the General Department of Disaster Prevention andControl under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the VietnamRed Cross as well as the Red Cross Societies and Women’s Unions in thelocalities.
Vo Tan Sanh, Chairman of the Red Cross Societyin Binh Dao, said floods usually occur in the commune.
The association has proposed building fourflood-proof houses for needy families in the commune with the fund of 200million VND (8,810 USD).
Nguyen Thi Lan, Chairwoman of the Red CrossSociety in Thang Binh, said the RoK-funded project benefits 17 households inher district and helps locals improve their lives.
More flood resistant houses will be built forpoor people in the coming time.
Vietnam is one of the five countries hardest hitby natural disasters. Over the past two decades, natural disasters left over400 people dead and missing each year, caused economic losses of about 1-1.5percent of GDP, and affected people’s living environment and conditions, aswell as socio-economic activities and sustainable development of thecountry.
In 2017, a record number of 16 typhoons and fourlow pressures occurred in the East Sea. Natural disasters cost the lives of 386people in the year, damaged more than 600,000 houses and caused economic lossesof about 60 trillion VND (2.64 billion USD), with the worst being typhoonsDoksuri and Damrey.
Damrey, the 12th storm developed in the East Seain 2017, hit Vietnam on November 4, affecting more than 4.3 million people anddamaging hundreds of thousands of houses. -VNA
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