National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) says that the heavy rainfall and the resulting flash flood in Male’ last Friday has caused damages costing over MVR 1 million to households.
The authority reveals that damages to household essentials and structural damages as a result of the rainfall amounts to an approximated MVR 1.1 million.
It has been decided that under the disaster humanitarian aid policy, financial assistance of MVR 711,541 is to be distributed to the assessed households, with the highest expense provided to manage structural damages. This amount adds up to MVR 611,466. Damages to everyday household essentials measures up to approximately MVR 100,000.
The Authority has decided on sharing information of the households that sustained the highest amount of structural destruction with concerned parties.
They also shared the Maldivian Red Crescent received 494 calls regarding the downpour. Within the 227 households that reported flooding and damage, the Red Crescent was able to provide aid to 193 households.
The army, police and Male’ City Council alongside public workers, has stacked 1,018 sand sacks for prevention in 152 areas including locations such as stores, schools and godowns that reported flooding.
NDMA also shared that they relocated 110 people residing in 18 houses that suffered damage during the rainfall. The authority provided shelter and meals to the affected persons for a period of two days. These individuals have now been transferred back to their original residences.
“These individuals were provided temporary shelter until they regain their standard conditions for living while their living quarters were rendered uninhabitable with a lack of cooking facilities, along with sleeping conditions and lavatory access," they said in their statement.
The authority speculates that the destruction to homes were this significant due to two flooding disasters occurring close together. December 31 also brought heavy rainfall and destruction to households. The authority shares that 20 homes that had previously reported damage then had been assessed once again during the Friday disaster due to further damage.
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