Oxfam has launched a K46 million Covid-19 Response Project which, among other objectives, is aimed at protecting vulnerable people at the Machinga district in Malawi.
Development Diaries gathered that the Southern Africa Regional Director at Oxfam, Nellie Nyang’wa, who spoke at the Joho Primary School, said 2,500 households will receive once-off cash money of K15, 000.
She said, ‘Covid-19 has disrupted the functionality of markets, farming and other economic activities people depend on. So this project is coming in just to support vulnerable families with some cash.
‘We hope that the cash transfer will help them to support their families to have basic human needs. It is also our hope that this support will indirectly benefit children, especially a girl child’.
She added that K38 million has been allocated to support vulnerable families in five traditional authorities of Mlomba, Nkula, Sitola, Nsanama, and Chamba.
The District Commissioner for Machinga, Rosemary Nawasha, said that she was happy that Machinga was one of the districts benefiting from the project.
‘We need resources to raise awareness to communities on new preventive measures. The district has an isolation centre but it needs to be filled with supplies’, she added.
Source: Nyasa Times
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