Nepal receiving £200,000 aid relief after floods

Jersey's aid agency has donated £200,000 to support the humanitarian response to the Nepal floods.

Jersey Overseas Aid (JOA) said the money had gone to the British Red Cross, whose workers were in the area after the floods on 26 August.

The death toll in Nepal from devastating floods on the border with Tibet has crossed 1,000, according to the country's disaster agency, while 3,900 people remain missing.

Carolyn Labey, Minister for International Development and chair of the Jersey Overseas Aid Commission, said: "The scale of devastation caused by these floods is deeply distressing, and our thoughts are with all those who have lost loved ones, homes and livelihoods."

Labey said the funding would support "long-term recovery and resilience".

"Nepal is a country with which Jersey shares longstanding ties. Over many years, islanders have travelled to Nepal through JOA's community work projects," she said.

She said these included the Gurkha Welfare Trust.

The JOA said the funding, approved less than a week after the disaster, would be provided through the British Red Cross and delivered in partnership with the Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS).

The funding, sent on top of "existing support" to the Nepal Red Cross Society, the grant would support "a range of emergency and recovery activities", including access to safe water, emergency shelter and livelihood recovery, aid bosses said.

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