Mercy Relief joins efforts to aid flood victims in Bangladesh

Humanitarian organisation Mercy Relief Singapore has joined a team in Bangladesh to help deliver aid to 18,000 flood victims.

- Sherlyn Sim

Mr Muhammad Ashik, Mercy Relief's executive director, and Mr Lecarl Lim from its international programmes department arrived at the south-eastern Noakhali district on Sept 9.

There, they have been working with a 14-strong team from their ground partner, Heed Bangladesh, to distribute emergency food and sanitation packs, including water purification tablets, to 3,000 households hit by floods.

Eleven districts in north-eastern and south-eastern Bangladesh have been severely affected by massive flash floods since Aug 22.

More than 5.2 million people are estimated to have been affected.