Webb said WFP began its response to Mocha before the storm hit, reaching 28,000 people in Bangladesh near the Myanmar border with advance cash aid to help them prepare.
And, she said, as soon as the worst of the storm passed, the agency had reached thousands of refugees with emergency food aid, and was working “around the clock” to resume its regular food support.
In Myanmar, WFP launched emergency food distribution to families in evacuation shelters in Rakhine state and neighboring Magway region.
That said, the agency aims to reach at least 800,000 people in the worst-affected areas of Rakhine, Magway and Chin – about half of them already displaced by the conflict – for the initial three months.
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