Japan grants USD 3 Million Humanitarian Emergency Assistance to procure essential medicines and food through UNICEF and WFP

On May 20^th, the Government of Japan has decided to provide USD 3 million Humanitarian Emergency Assistance to procure essential medicines and food through UNICEF and WFP.
 
USD 1.5 million will be utilized to procure most urgently needed 25 types of life-saving medicines within the next two months through UNICEF for over 1.2 million people, among them 53,000 pregnant and lactating mothers and nearly 122,000 children.
 
Another USD 1.5 million will provide three months essential food supplies through WFP, including fortified rice, dhal and oil, for approximately 15,000 urban and rural communities and 380,000 school children across the island.
 
We hope that this assistance will help ease the hardship that the people and the Government of Sri Lanka are currently facing. Japan, which enjoys 70 years of close friendship with Sri Lanka, will remain committed to stand in solidarity with Sri Lanka.