Border authority gives relief to Fly

COOKING oil, bags of rice and flour have been distributed to about 6,000 villagers affected by floods in the Morehead area,  Western.The foodstuff were transported on the Border Development Authority’s (BDA) barge, mv Milne Bay Atolls, which was in the province to deliver materials such as water tanks and building materials to villages along the Papua New Guinea-Australia and PNG-Indonesian borders under the authority’s social programmes. The remote Morehead area is along the PNG-Indonesian border in the South Fly district.
Morehead Disaster Relief coordinator Guni Tupolam said he was happy with the authority’s timely help.
“We have only one barge and doing the transportation in this remote district is difficult,” he said.
“That barge is now distributing relief supplies to other isolated villages along the Oriomo, Binaturi and Bawaturi rivers. “We still are yet to distribute supplies in villages along the Suki and Bituri rivers. And to wait for its return is prolonging Morehead people’s sufferings.”
Tupolam said more than 29,000 people in the South Fly district had been affected since the heavy flooding occurred in April and destroyed their gardens.