Presented by : Faizan, Umer, M.Bilal, Noman Class : IV-E

 More than 10 million of the country’s 153 million people were affected and hundreds of people killed over the past month, after above average monsoon rains battered much of the low lying nation, leaving 39 of the country’s 64 districts, partially or fully inundated.

 Millions of households have had their safe drinking water, food and shelter snatched away. Children who are exposed, thirsty and under nourished will be particularly vulnerable to disease and diarrhea for the immediate future.  UNICEF is concentrating efforts to address the immediate survival needs of affected children, while trying to ensure that long term health, education and sanitation is not neglected. The agency’s US$ million component of the UN’s flash appeal launched today in Dhaka highlights infant and young child food needs disease and illness prevention as well as funding requests to restore safe water supplies and latrines.

 The most badly-affected area is around the capital, Dhaka. The floods are the worst on record and it is believed some 700 people have already died.  Another 125,000 are being treated for diarrhea.

 In response to an appeal from the local branch of the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society, UNHCR has since last weekend provided 10,000 items of clothing, 650 cooking pots, 1,500 jerry cans 13,000 jugs, glasses, cups and plates, 100 sleeping mats, 200 lanterns and 2,000 pieces of plastic sheeting.

 Each year in Bangladesh about 18% of the country is flooded, killing over 5,000 people and destroying 7 million homes. Flooding normally occurs during the monsoon season from June to September every year. This often lasts for about 1 month. Despite of being a very small country, which is 70 times smaller than USA, it holds world's 7th largest population of 170 million. Its population density is the highest in the world. Each year millions of people lose their homes and are deprived of food, medicine and clean water during flood.

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