State minister: WB to provide 255C as food aid to Rohingyas
State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief Md Enamur Rahman on Sunday said the World Bank will provide a grant of Tk255 crore for food aid to the Rohingyas staying in Cox's Bazar. The state minister said this while talking to reporters after the signing ceremony of an agreement between the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief and the World Food Program (WFP) at the ministry. Secretary of the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief Md Kamrul Hasan, on behalf of the ministry, and Country Director Jane Pearce, on behalf of the WFP, signed the agreement in presence of other senior officials. Under the agreement, WFP will provide food aid to Rohingyas in Cox's Bazar through the Safety Net System for the Poorest project, funded by the World Bank, said the state minister. He added: “The project will also provide nutrition education to women, assistance to children under the five in health centres, materials and training in vegetable gardening, plantation and preservation of trees, and mountain slopes. The project also aims to clean roads and sewers and carry out various awareness activities to prevent anti-social activities in the Rohingya camps.”
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Deliver on promises, developing world tells rich at climate talks
A crucial U.N. conference heard calls on its first day for the world's major economies to keep their promises of financial help to address the climate crisis, while big polluters India and Brazil made new commitments to cut emissions. World leaders, environmental experts and activists all pleaded for decisive action to halt the global warming which threatens the future of the planet at the start of the two-week COP26 summit in the Scottish city of Glasgow on Monday. The task facing negotiators was made even more daunting by the failure of the Group of 20 major industrial nations to agree ambitious new commitments at the weekend.