Extremely Servere Cyclone MOCHA made landfall in Myanmar’s Rakhine state on 14th May packing winds of 250 mph as it approached to the coast, making it one of the strongest cyclones on record t hit the country. (UNOCHA Situation analysis report 25th May 2023.
More than 95% of houses were devastated, and rice, paddy and paddy seeds also got huge damaged. The lives of affected people still need to be supported to recover the situation after the MOCHA cyclone. The PIM team have been collecting data on the affected people and areas through the field assessment and PIM local networks after the MOCHA cyclone hit those areas.
(80) rice bags were distributed to (178) total households from Kyar Nyo Inn (58 households), Thone Khwa (54), Pesi (15 households) and Maw Ywar (46 households) villages, Kyauk Taw township, Rakhine on 20th June 2023, and those villages are the most hard-to-reach for supporting food and other essential things.
This emergency response is to support the urgent needs of those cyclone-affected people to mitigate the immediate impacts of the MOCHA cyclone.