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Quang Nam: House repair for storm-hit victims urged as Tet nears

The Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of central Quang Nam province has urged its chapters to work with local authorities to help storm-hit people repair and rebuild houses as Tet, Vietnam’s traditional New Year holiday, is approaching.
Quang Nam: House repair for storm-hit victims urged as Tet nears ảnh 1A house affected by Typhoon Damrey last year. Illustrative image. (Photo: VNA)
 
Quang Nam (VNA) – The Vietnam FatherlandFront Committee of central Quang Nam province has urged its chapters to workwith local authorities to help storm-hit people repair and rebuild houses asTet, Vietnam’s traditional New Year holiday, is approaching.

The committee has allocated approximately 4.3 billionVND to aid the mountainous districts of Nam Tra My, Bac Tra My, Phuoc Son, Nongson, Hiep Duc and Nam Giang, the province’s hardest-hit by Typhoon Damrey earlyNovember 2017.

The sum will be used to rebuild 106 houses whichcollapsed due to floods and landfall and to repair 188 others.

About 220 families living in theprovince’s areas prone to floods and landslide also received support from aproject initiated by the General Department of Disaster Prevention and Controlat the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development, the Embassy of the Republicof Korea, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to repair andrebuild affected houses. The project is expected to last in June this year.

In earlyNovember, 2017, the southern coastal region was hit by storm Damrey, one of theworst storms to strike the region in years.

The typhoonand subsequent floods claimed 89 lives and left 18 missing and 174 othersinjured in central and Central Highlands localities as of November 7, 2017.-VNA
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