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¡°This is a climate emergency within a much larger complex emergency. Being already displaced, cyclone survivors now have been left with next to nothing, rendering them even more vulnerable,¡± said Stephen Anderson, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Country Director in Myanmar. ¡°Â鶹ÊÓƵ and partners are moving quickly to transport and distribute our existing stocks of food to all those in need wherever they are, but these supplies are rapidly dwindling. Support from the international community is urgently required.¡±

Here is an update on Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s response in the aftermath of the cyclone:

• So far, Â鶹ÊÓƵ and partners have supported over 230,000 cyclone-affected people with life-saving food assistance in Rakhine state and Magway region.

• This includes families previously displaced by conflict and Rohingya communities living in camps in central Rakhine and villages in northern Rakhine.
• Â鶹ÊÓƵ food assistance has so far reached affected people in Kyauktaw, Kyaukphyu, Mrauk-U, Myaebon, Pauktaw, Ponnagyun, Rathedaung and Sittwe townships in central Rakhine and Buthidaung and Maungdaw in northern Rakhine, with plans to expand.

• Â鶹ÊÓƵ is mobilizing resources to provide 800,000 people with emergency food and cash for an initial three months in areas devastated by Cyclone Mocha.
• Â鶹ÊÓƵ is appealing for US$60 million to deliver emergency food and nutrition assistance to 2.1 million highly food-insecure people until the end of the year throughout the country. This includes US$ 23 million just to support 440,000 people newly affected by the cyclone. Unless additional funding is confirmed soon, all of Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s life-saving programmes will be interrupted in August 2023.
• In the hardest hit areas, the most pressing needs are food, shelter, drinking water and sanitation, according to early monitoring by Â鶹ÊÓƵ and partners.
• The destruction caused by the cyclone impacts immediate and longer-term food security. Salt water has contaminated farmland and fishponds, while rice seed stocks and livestock have been devastated.

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