The Netherlands will soon send a water expert to Suriname to determine with the local authorities how best to combat the flooding. Once that plan is in place, the rest of a team of experts will follow. This then makes an analysis of the urgent problems and makes recommendations, writes Minister Schreinemacher for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation in a letter to the House of Representatives.
Suriname has been struggling with exceptional rainfall for months. To prevent the Afobaka dam from breaking, all the sluices were opened, flooding the Brokopondo district. But other areas also suffer from flooding. People have been forced to leave their homes, schools are closed, crops have been lost and infrastructure has been damaged.
Sita Pansa and her niece can no longer enter their house and do not have enough to eat:
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