S Korea to supply $300,000 to aid Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar
South Korean Ambassador to Bangladesh Lee Jang-keun has announced a fresh contribution of US$ 300,000 to WFP Bangladesh to aid its operations offering food assist with 860,000 persons in Cox's Bazar Rohingya camps.
WFP assists 100 percent of the Rohingya population across 34 formally established camps where they remain reliant on food assist with meet their basic needs.
Additionally, WFP provides nutrition, engineering, school feeding, and self-reliance or livelihood trained in the Rohingya camps and surrounding host communities.
“We are grateful to donors like the Republic of Korea who continue steadily to support us in assisting the Rohingya refugees who remain entirely reliant on external support” said Richard Ragan, WFP Country Director in Bangladesh on Wednesday.
This latest contribution is furthermore to USD 500,000 of humanitarian funding provided to WFP for it’s General Food Assistance programme for the Rohingya response in 2018.
“Korea is actively engaged in international efforts to address the Rohingya refugee crisis, in particular, through WFP,” said Ambassador Lee Jang-keun.
“The Government of Korea hopes this contribution can help not only the refugees in Cox's Bazar but also the Bangladesh neighborhood hosting the refugees.”
The federal government of the Republic of Korea has been supporting WFP Bangladesh for its disaster risk reduction programme since 2013.
WFP with Korea’s multi-year support through KOICA, supported rural communities whose lives and livelihoods are affected by extreme poverty and the consequences of climate change in Sirajganj district during 2013-2015.
Since 2018, the Republic of Korea has contributed over US$ 5,000,000 to WFP in Bangladesh, including US$ 4.6 million for a four-year disaster resilience project in Kurigram district which has been critical to supporting vulnerable families damaged by this year’s record-breaking floods.
