Overview

Chinese Embassy in Cambodia provides flood relief kits to 800 families in the Dangkor district of Cambodia

Commitment Year•2020Country of Activity•CambodiaDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•CambodiaSector•Reconstruction Relief And RehabilitationFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Oct 20, 2020

Geospatial footprint

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The Dangkor district is a southwestern suburb of Cambodia's capital city of Phnom Penh. More detailed locational information can be found at https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2259498.

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

Chinese Embassy

Receiving agencies

NGO/CSO/Foundations

Union of Youth Federations of Cambodia (UYFC)

Loan description

Chinese Embassy in Cambodia provides flood relief kits to 800 families in the Dangkor district of Cambodia

Narrative

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Project narrative

On October 20, 2020, the Chinese Embassy in Cambodia provided flood relief kits to 800 families in the Dangkor district of Cambodia. Chinese Ambassador Wang Wentian, joined by Cambodian lawmaker Hun Many, president of the Union of Youth Federations of Cambodia, and Phnom Penh governor Khuong Sreng, distributed the relief items at three different locations in the district. Each kit contained rice, noodles, tinned fish, soya sauce, drinking water and a 50,000 Cambodian riel each. As of October 21, 2020, Seasonal rains, exacerbated by tropical storms, had caused floods in 19 of the kingdom's 25 cities and provinces since the beginning of the month. By this time, 25 people had been killed and 37,396 others had been forced to evacuate.