Floods: On High Royal Instructions, MAD 80K, 140K Financial Aids Granted to Families to Rehabilitate Damaged Homes

On High Instructions of HM King Mohammed VI, financial aids of 80,000 dirhams and 140,000 dirhams will be granted to families whose homes have been partially or completely collapsed by the floods that hit the South-East of the Kingdom, Head of Government Aziz Akhannouch said Wednesday in Rabat.    In a statement to the press following the first meeting of the Inter-ministerial Commission in charge of the rehabilitation program for flood-affected areas in the southeast of the Kingdom, Akhannouch underlined that this financial aid reflects the high solicitude that the Sovereign surrounds the affected populations, adding that the amount of this aid will be 80,000 dirhams to finance the rehabilitation works of partially collapsed homes and 140,000 dirhams for completely collapsed homes.    This meeting examined the means to implement the High Royal Guidelines on the allocation of a 2.5-billion-dirham aid to the victims of these floods, he said, noting that this sum will be allocated to the Fund for the Fight against Natural Catastrophes.    The Government Head underlined that the appropriate program was devised to deal with the repercussions of the floods based on field work carried out by the parties concerned, adding that this work assessed the damage and the needs of the affected populations.