Chinese Government donates $1 million to UNICEF to support Malawi through the South-South Cooperation Assistance Fund Humanitarian Aid Project (Linked to Record ID#70191, 69768)

On December 11, 2019, the Chinese government donated US$1 million (K724.8 million) to UNICEF to help Malawian families recover from the effects of the March 2019 floods.

Ambassador Hongyang spoke during the signing ceremony in Lilongwe of the partnership among the Malawi Government, China and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to support the recovery interventions. The funding will contribute in the area of sanitation, hygiene, nutrition, child protection and education.

According to the post-disaster report released by the Department of Disaster Management Affairs (DODMA) earlier this year, about 868,895 people were affected by floods and other related disasters across the country.

This project is a cooperation between the Chinese government and UNICEF (see Record ID#69768) under the framework of the South-South Cooperation Assistance Fund.

It mainly provides safe water and emergency sanitation facilities to families and children affected by the "Idai" cyclone in Malawi, and carries out child protection activities.

Along with Ambassador Hongyang, UNICEF Representative in Malawi Schwenke and Deputy Director of the Malawi Disaster Management Agency Nkoma attended the meeting.

This is likely related to an agreement signed in September by Zhang Maoyu, vice-chairman of the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA) with UNICEF representatives on the provision of humanitarian aid to Malawi, to provide reconstruction assistance to Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique after the tropical cyclone disaster.

As a cooperation project under the framework of the South-South Cooperation Assistance Fund, it aims to help the countries affected by the strong tropical cyclone by repairing damaged houses and schools and helping local residents to return to their normal ways of living.