Markham gets K1mil in relief funds

MARKHAM district, Morobe, received K1 million in disaster funding to assist those affected by a landslip.
Prime Minister James Marape announced the funding at the launch of the district’s five-year development plan on Good Friday at the Mutzing station.
Marape said the funding had been allocated into the district’s account to assist victims of a landslip that occurred in early January at Umbaku in Leron-Wantoat local level government.
The landslip claimed four lives and caused extensive destruction to gradens and homes.
Officers from the Morobe disaster coordination office visited Wantoat and gathered reports on lives lost and injureda dnt eh number of houses, gardens destroyed.
District administrator Bohage Bebinaso said the provincial disaster office and the district development authority had helped the affected community with supplies.
They assisted both the landslip-affected community at Wantoat and the flood-affected community at Zumim and will continue the assistance through providing cocoa and coffee seedlings.
Bebinaso and the provincial disaster coordinator Charlie Masange both advised that they would continue the assistance once their funding submission was approved.