2. CEDAR has conducted needs assessment in severely flood-hit areas of Guangan and Dazhou in Sichuan province.
3. Torrential rains and floods have caused wide-scale destruction of both homes and crops:
4. Substantial crops have been destroyed and villagers can only resume farming after 6 months. Flood affected population will need to rely on food aid supplies in coming months.
11. The flood victims are now in dire need of daily necessity items and shelters.
12. CEDAR is launching relief operations with local church; has so far distributed relief items to 270 homeless families in Taiping, Hualou and Baisa in Wanyuan county, Dazhou.
13. Relief items include clothes, bed sheets, thermal water container, rechargeable torches , cooking utensils, buckets , personal hygiene items and other daily necessities.
14. CEDAR is planning to support 30 resource poor households from remote areas in Quxian, Xuanhan and Wanyuan County of Dazhou to rebuild houses.
