Region One facing challenge in ensuring food, water supplies ...
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ten from other organisations and that is not sufficient. Within a few days, maybe three to four days, we have to find ways to provide food for them,” Ashley shared.
“For the region overall, it’s a challenge to us because as you know we would not have budgeted for this within our 2018,” he added.
Nonetheless, the Chairman related that the Regional Disaster Risk Management Committee is scheduled to meet today to discuss the implementation of a plan to deal with the continuous influx of Venezuelan migrants.
The CDC and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) last week announced plans to procure relief supplies to aid Venezuelan migrants in regions One, Seven and Nine.
The CDC and UNICEF, in a joint statement issued on Friday, had said that efforts are underway to pre-position relief supplies to enhance the capacity of the three regions in providing basic assistance to meet the initial needs of the displaced population as the influx of Venezuelans into Guyana increases.
It was also noted that relief supplies for shelter, water, sanitation and hygiene were being procured within Guyana to the value of US$30,000 (GY$6,226,562).
Additionally, the statement said, the CDC is expected to deploy the relief supplies within the coming weeks to the Regional Administrations for storage and distribution.
The relief supplies are expected to benefit an estimated sixty families per region, with the total number of persons expected to benefit estimated at 900.
The announcement by the two agencies comes less than a week after Minister of Citizenship Winston Felix disclosed that plans are in motion for the setting up of a homestead settlement area in Region One. State Minister Joseph Harmon yesterday said govern- ment was exploring the establishment of humani- tarian centres for Venezuelan immigrants in the region.