Committee prepares to distribute relief supplies

By PETER WARI
FOUR container-loads of government-funded relief supplies, mostly food and water, arrived in Mendi yesterday.
They were stored at Mendi Airport.
Fiebik Kilip, who is coordinating the earthquake relief supplies, said there were bales of rice, canned fish, cookies, biscuits and water.
He said the relief committee identified some care centres and some were yet to be identified.
“After verifying all the care centres, the supplies will be distributed to those affected people living in the care centres. The worst affected areas are Nipa-Kutubu and Mendi-Munihu districts and Mendi Urban and Lower Mendi LLGs,” he said.
Kilip said the supplies would be distributed after consultation with the district chief executives so that they reached the affected people.
He said they were arranging schedules for distribution.
“The priority areas to send the supplies are the Nipa-Kutubu and Mendi-Munihu districts then to other centres,” Kilip said.
Mendi-Munihu MP and Works Minister Michael Nali is in the province visiting his district with Works Secretary David Wereh.
Nali visited the site where four people were buried and wept after seeing the survivor’ break down.
The survivor is Jerina Peter, 9, a grade 3 student at Puinj Primary.