Government has delivered relief food items to the more than 30,000 flood victims in Namalu Sub County in Nakapiripirit district.
According to Hellen Pulkol, the Nakapiripirit district LC V vice chairperson, the office of the Prime Minister through the Ministry of Disaster Preparedness delivered to the district 4,000kgs of maize flour and 2,000 kgs of beans to be distributed to the flood victims in Namalu Sub County.
Pulkol said a team of volunteers have been sent to the worst hit areas to conduct an assessment of the most vulnerable people and that the food will be distributed any time this week.
She said about 37,000 people have been affected after floods washed away their houses and gardens of crops in Namalu and Loredwe sub counties.
Pulkol said the district is in touch with other aid agencies operating in the district and that they expect more humanitarian response from them soon. She says the immediate attention should be on food and shelter.
Martha Nangiro, a single mother of 11 children and a resident of Lokeyenget East, describes the food relief given by government as a drop of water in an ocean.
She says she expected government to immediately intervene with tauplines, fast growing crop seeds, adequate food relief, blankets and mosquito nets among others.
Nangiro, who lost 10 bags of rice in the floods, also accused the district authorities of sending them to the low lying areas in Okududu village which she said is very prone to floods and landslides.
According to Nangiro, majority of the flood victims are those who were repatriated from Kampala, Jinja, and the neighboring districts of Mbale, Soroti and Sironko.
Umar Aleper, the LC I chairperson of Okududu, the most affected village says his office has registered a total of 476 households which have been seriously affected.
Aleper says most of them are surviving by selling firewood to Namulu Sub County but adds that they are even getting difficulties in getting this wood since most of them are too weak to cut the trees.
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