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Germany funds for flood victims

The Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany has allocated a sum of Euro 400,000 equivalent to Rs. 44 million for the provision of Mobile Water-treatment Plants for the supply of drinking water for hospitals and for people affected by the floods. With this mobile water treatment plants, clean drinking water will be made available for more than 60,000 people for the next four weeks, states a German Embassy press release.

Part of the assistance will also be utilised for the cleaning of wells in these flood affected areas. A team of four Disaster Management experts from the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) arrived in Sri Lanka on May 19 to assess the situation. The THW will also be responsible for the implementation of the program.

With this emergency funding, humanitarian assistance to Sri Lanka by the Foreign Office of the FRG increased to Euro 800,000 for this year.

The funding comes as a follow-up to the offer for assistance made by the German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Joschka Fischer in a letter to his Sri Lankan counterpart Tyronne Fernando.

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