Fiji's prime minister Frank Bainimarama has received US$168,000 dollars from Tuvalu to help the country's recovery from Cyclone Winston.
Tuvalu's Prime Minister Enele Sopoaga Photo: RNZI / Jamie Tahana
The donation was handed over by Tuvalu's prime minister, Enele Sopoaga, on Monday.
It will go into the prime minister's National Disaster Relief and Rehabilitation Fund.
The money included US$7,000 dollars raised in a two-week-long public appeal in Tuvalu.
Engineers and assessors in Fiji are counting the cost of the damage to roads and infrastructure caused by Cyclone Winston.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the government of Fiji have jointly launched the international Fiji Flash Appeal for Cyclone Winston.
China has donated another 1 million US dollars to Fiji as relief after Cyclone Winston.
The United Nations has released US$8 million from its emergency response fund to help Fiji cope with the cyclone disaster.
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