According to KBS:
Red Cross to Help NK Prepare for Monsoon Season
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies reportedly plans to allocate around nine million dollars this year for projects to support North Korea ahead of the monsoon season.
Radio Free Asia said Wednesday that the Red Cross plans to select 31 towns that are considered to be the most vulnerable to natural disasters and will provide them with up to nine-and-a-half million dollars for preparedness training and to build dams and reservoirs.
The report said the international organization’s plans aim to help some eight-point-two million North Koreans this year.
The Red Cross also plans to form a committee on preventing natural disasters in the North from this month until mid-September, when the region is affected by monsoon rains.
And according to another KBS story:
WFP to Spend $2.8 Mln on NK Food Aid
The U.N. World Food Program (WFP) has decided to spend nearly two-point-eight million U.S. dollars on food aid for North Korea.
The funding for the aid was provided by the Swedish government.
Radio Free Asia quoted WFP global media coordinator Greg Barrow as saying that his agency will use the Swedish donation to help North Korea, which is in desperate need of emergency food aid.
Barrow said that the North will require even more donations from countries around the world, given that the current amount of food aid for the impoverished nation is expected to run out by September.
Read the full stories here:
WFP to Spend $2.8 Mln on NK Food Aid
KBS
7/7/2010
Red Cross to Help NK Prepare for Monsoon Season
KBS
7/7/2010
