Kawa, 22 September
    

Some villages along the Sittoung River in Kawa Township, Bago Region were inundated by floodwaters following the incessant heavy rains in the area.
    

Officials from the Department of Disaster Management under the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement supplied cash assistance to the flood victims on September 21. A total of 7,194 people from 1,569 families in ten villages along the Sittoung River became the flood victims.
    

The Lower House MP U Hla Than, Regional Lawmaker U Myo Khaing, Township Administrator U Win Naing and the government employees provided relief items such as soap, facial masks and over K 15.1 million to the flood victims.


Tin Soe (Bago)
Translated by Kyaw Htike Soe