Super Typhoon Yagi - Vietnam
People Helped
Humanitarian Needs
On 7 September 2024, Super Typhoon Yagi struck Vietnam, the strongest storm in decades. It caused severe flooding, landslides, and flash floods across 28 provinces affecting nearly 19 million people.
In total, 336 people lost their lives and 823 were injured. Approximately 400,000 households are facing severe water shortages and worsening public health risks, especially for women and girls. Flooding has destroyed more than 241,000 hectares of rice fields and other crops, threatening food security, particularly in impoverished ethnic communities in the two worst-hit provinces: Lao Cai and Yen Bai.
Many schools in the worst-hit provinces were damaged and remain closed, hindering children's access to education, psychosocial support, and food programs.
Humanitarian Response
Oxfam Canada and its local partners will provide an integrated package of support over six months that includes cash and in-kind support, non-food items, food, water, sanitation and hygiene services, hygiene promotion, and gender and protection services.
These efforts will target thousands of the hardest-hit individuals in eight communes across Yen Bai and Lao Cai to address critical humanitarian gaps in access to safe water, sanitation, non-food items, infrastructure, and shelter.
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