Canada provides humanitarian assistance to countries affected by Irma

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Saturday, 9 September, 2017 13:16

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OTTAWA, The international Development minister, Marie-Claude Bibeau, said Friday in a press release that Canada provides humanitarian assistance to countries affected by the hurricane Irma.

The government of Canada, which says it is “concerned by the devastation caused by the hurricane Irma” will donate $ 100,000 to the “Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency” for providing logistics support to teams responsible for the evaluation and emergency equipment, emergency power and construction materials, according to the needs.

World affairs Canada, that helps people affected by this disaster in the Caribbean, has provided $ 60,000 through its emergency assistance Fund to support the relief interventions of the international Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies in Haiti and the dominican Republic.

“We support the deployment of an expert from the Un Team responsible for the evaluation and coordination in the event of a disaster, to take part in an emergency assessment, information management and the coordination of international relief. We are working with several humanitarian partners, including the world food Programme, which had put in place stocks of relief supplies in the northern part of Haiti in anticipation of the hurricane Irma,” said the minister, Claude Bibeau.

Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful that has ever raged in the Atlantic ocean, and sow destruction in the Caribbean from September 6, with winds which have reached 300 km/hour.