Gyeonggi Province Extends a Helping Hand to the Earthquake and Tsunami Victims of Indonesia

Createdd 2019-01-17 Hit 485

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Gyeonggi Province provided aid to those affected by the earthquake and tsunami in that struck Indonesia last September.

On January 6, the provinceGyeonggi announced that they it have investedallocated KRW 50 million in to helping the 5,600 disaster victims of in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia, delivering 1,424 emergency food packages containing rice, cooking oil, biscuits, salt, canned goods and drinking water from November to December last year.

The northern Sulawesi region of Indonesia is adjacent to the Southsouthern Sulawesi Province,region which signed a cooperative agreement with the Gyeonggi pProvince in 2002. The tsunami and magnitude 7.5 quake that hit the region resulted in 1,700 deaths and 70,000 homeless residents.

Following this, in October, Gyeonggi the province selected Asia Pacific Alliance for Disaster Management as the delegating organization to that would send representatives to investigate in the region disaster and provide better aid to those affected.

The emergency food packages and drinking water prepared by the provinceGyeonggi were firstly delivered to the victims with disabilities and the elderlyies, who were most in need of the packages according to Asia Pacific Alliance for Disaster Management Korea’s investigation.