COAST Foundation is providing relief assistance to more than 4,000 families in Feni, one of the most affected districts of Bangladesh in the floods that occurred in the eastern districts of Bangladesh last August.

From the second day of the flood, COAST itself started providing cooked meals and other assistance.

Currently, COAST Foundation is providing food and other assistance to these 4,100 families with the financial support of Shapla Nest, a Japan-based international development organization working in Bangladesh.

The Japanese donor organization Japan Platform is involved in this relief work.

A total of 3200 families of Mirzanagar, Chitlia Union of Feni District's Parashuram Upazila and 1000 families of Darbarpur Union of Fulgazi Upazila will be provided in different phases.

COAST Foundation; with the help of Parashuram and Sonagazi upazila administration and related unions selected these four thousand and one hundred families as the most affected and poor through field survey to provide relief assistance.

Today, in the first phase of the relief program, a total of 283 families of the 5th and 6th Wards of Mirzanagar Union were provided relief assistance.

The food items of this assistance included 25 kg rice, 4 kg dal, 2 kg salt, 4 kg oil, 1 kg sugar, 4 kg flour, 3 kg potato and 10 packets of food saline. And the non-food items included 1 mosquito net, 2 hand washes, 3 bath soaps, 2 kg detergent, 1 pitcher, 2 food plates, 3 water purification tablets and 1 towel.

On the first day of the relief distribution program organized at Mirzanagar Tauhid Academy, COAST Foundation Deputy Executive Director Sanat Kumar Bhowmik, Shapla Neer Tokyo Representative Hiromi Katsui, Yusuke Takashina and Shapla Neer Bangladesh Country Director Tomoko Uchiyama, and Program Coordinator Md Anisuzzaman, SI Kamal of Parashuram Police Station were present., local civil society representative Saheed Aman Chowdhury along with local dignitaries.

Uchiyama said, "We welcome your efforts to overcome the damage caused by the worst floods of the last century. With the funding of Japan Foundation and the implementation of COAST Foundation, Shapla Neer is trying to be by your side in this crisis".

It is to be noted that the emergency relief project which started on September 25 will end on October 25. In the project, a total of 37 field facilitators collected information from a total of 4858 people by visiting the houses of the affected people in the project area.

A list of 4100 families was finalized through 3-stage screening. Relief assistance will be provided to these 4100 families in phases.