Disaster relief

Fida has begun distributing humanitarian aid in Myanmar. “Help is urgently needed,” says Regional Director Jukka Tasanen, who has previously lived in the country and is coordinating the relief efforts.

Fida has launched an emergency appeal due to the humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and is preparing to assist people who have fled the fighting.

In Tigray, food shortages due to armed conflict and the Corona pandemic have deepened. The UN estimates that more people are suffering from hunger in the Tigray area than anywhere else in the world and the situation is expected to worsen in the coming months.