USAID hands over innovative disaster shelter in Bandarban
USA Agency for International Production (USAID) with respect to US Embassy Dhaka has handed over newly made multi-purpose disaster shelter in Bandarban to the federal government.
The new shelter with capacity of accommodating 400 persons is among 25 new multi-purpose disaster shelters and 96 existing cyclone shelters being funded and refurbished by the US government to serve as both safe havens and as schools in Cox’s Bazar, a US embassy press release saidon Friday.
This new multi-purpose shelter may be the latest demonstration of the long-term US commitment to the persons of Bangladesh as the united states nears its 50th anniversary of independence, it said.
USAID Country Mission Director Derrick Brown, Director General of Department of Disaster Administration Md. Atiqul Huq and Preserve the Children’s Region Director Onno van Manen inaugurated the brand new shelter at Baishpari village of Naikhangchori Upazilla in Bandarban district on Thursday.
Brown said, the US federal government is proud to greatly help build resilience of the neighborhood community to deal with herbal disasters and fund the renovation of this school to provide a better child-friendly learning space, as a result local children may have better usage of
life-changing education, and the city includes a safe home during natural disasters.
For nearly five decades, USAID spent some time working closely with many partners to mitigate the affect of organic disasters in Bangladesh.
The USAID Objective in Bangladesh is currently funding the construction and maintenance of multipurpose cyclone shelters
throughout the country and wave safeguard walls and earthen embankments to lessen flood damage, explained the release.
Since 2001, USAID, together with the Bangladesh federal government has constructed over 500 cyclone shelters in coastal regions of Bangladesh offering life-saving protection to 900,000 persons during serious weather, it added.
The US government, through USAID, has provided more than $8 billion in development assist with Bangladesh since its independence.
