The World Food Programme (WFP) said it is lending its emergency expertise to support response efforts underway in the Bahamas, which is reeling from the impact of Hurricane Dorian, the islands’ worst-ever hurricane.
With a team of 15 experts on ground, WFP said it was supporting the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA,) the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), and partners to identify the most urgent needs and provide support in the vital areas of food, telecommunications and logistics.
WFP delivered storage units, generators, prefab offices and satellite telecoms to Marsh Harbour, Abaco Island, where it is establishing a logistics hub. It said the hub would facilitate the arrival, storage and dispatch of relief material, ensuring a coordinated humanitarian response on the island.
WFP has distributed over 1,500 ready to eat meals, with food also reaching people affected in the hard-to-reach Little Abaco. It also sent two vessels with humanitarian cargo to Marsh Harbour, which offloaded 13,800 individual ready-to-eat meals and relief material from WFP and its partners.
On September 1, Hurricane Dorian made landfall on the Bahamas as a powerful category 5 hurricane, causing the death of nearly 45 people in the Abaco and Grand Bahama islands. Ninety percent of housing and infrastructure on Abaco Island is damaged or destroyed with many homes still without power~WFP
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