Wundwin, 28 April

A ceremony to donate cash and kind to storm victims took place at the meeting room of the General Administration Department in Wundwin Township, Mandalay Region yesterday afternoon.

Around 70 houses and one monastery were damaged after strong winds along heavy rains swept through some villages in the township on 25 April. The Department of Disaster Management under the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement provided over Ks. 4.2 million for purchasing construction materials, Ks. 632,100 for buying rice and 17 kinds of household items to the storm victims.

The Pyithu Hluttaw Representative U Khin Maung Soe, Regional Lawmaker U Soe Min Htet, Township Administrator U Myo Tint, officials from the Fire Services Department, the township development committee and DDM presented relief supplies for the storm victims through the village administrators.—Htay Hlaing (Wundwin)

Translated by Kyaw Htike Soe