COAST provides hot meal to flood victims in Feni

Once again, COAST Foundation provides hot meal with community kitchen to flood affected people in Feni.

On Tuesday night (3rd September), nearly 400 people; who took shelter in Abdul Karim High School at Dagonbhuiyan Upazila received the most desired human assist from 'The Coast Foundation'.

A 10-members team; highly decorated in shelter management manuals successfully distributes the humanitarian assistance with 7 locally hired kitchen staff. A shelter management committee also supported them.

COAST Executive Director M Rezaul Karim Chowdhury was present in the programme with some high officials of Coast Foundation.

They Interacted with the flood affected people who took shelter in the school. Firstly, they checked the quality of food, bread, milk and other items. Then, a designated team distributes the foods to 400 people including many childreen.

Interacting with this correspondent, these flood affected people cordially thanked the entire team for their kind efforts.

It was really a full and inspirational evening for the Coast's team. "After facing an unexpected flood disaster, we believe that getting this assistance is the right for these flood affected people. It is not a charity or genorisity of someone from above," they said this while talking with this correspondent.

Local administration in Feni district, already restored electricity, mobile network and main supply chain road in a very speedy way in the district. Not a single minutes load shedding was occurred in Feni town for the last 48 hours.

COAST Foundation first started the 'hot meal with community kitchen' programme in several areas with their own fund. Now, 'Start Fund Bangladesh' has joined with them.

From the very beginning of flood disaster, COAST field staff has engaged in emergency rescues and relief program in Feni and Noakhali districts. Besides, COAST provides dry foods package distribution in shelter centers.

During the flood, COAST supported two local NGOs (OPCA and PRAN) from Noakhali to engage them in urgent relief and rescue work with dry food and bottled water and saline in the shelters.

COAST initially provided BDT 800,000 (Eight hundred thousand taka only) for the relief works and plan to support more if needed. COAST is communicating with some donor agencies for large scale of support for the flood affected people.

COAST Executive Director M Rezaul Karim Chowdhury is coordinating everything from central office, Dhaka. Besides, other some senior staff are supporting field team to respond the crisis affected people.

COAST Foundation working in Feni, Noakhali & Lakhsmipur with their core program (ie, micro finance, people organization etc) for more than fifteen years.