A shipment donated by the World Food Programme (WFP) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) was received today at the Antonio Maceo International Airport in Santiago de Cuba.
The aid is part of the coordinated response to support the recovery from the damage caused by Hurricane Melissa. It marks the beginning of a series of three humanitarian flights that will continue until next Monday. With the aim of reinforcing relief efforts in the region.
At the airport terminal, Rolando Verdes, a member of the WFP emergency team in Cuba, explained that this first flight brought six mobile storage units. Also two lighting towers, two hundred raincoats, and eight water tanks.
Verdes emphasized that this initiative is possible thanks to funding from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the European Union, through its Humanitarian Aid Agency. He emphasized the WFP’s leading role in the logistics sector within the UN Response Action Plan. And detailed the deployment of a team to assemble and set up six mobile warehouses in the provinces of Santiago de Cuba, Granma, and Holguin.
The supplies are intended to replenish items that the WFP had previously allocated for the early hurricane response. To continue supporting the eastern provinces. The World Food Programme reaffirmed its commitment to continue mobilizing resources to support humanitarian assistance and food security. For the most vulnerable people in the eastern provinces as part of the emergency response.
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