Flood help for Cambodian victims 'inadequate': aid agency

Photo: Flooded farmland around Siem Reap in northern Cambodia. (Flickr: Darryl Soutaris)

ABC Radio Australia
Updated November 7, 2011

Up to 400,000 Cambodians may have missed out on flood assistance and many others received one-off donations which will have lasted only a week or two, according to an agency involved in the relief efforts.

An extended monsoon season has led to the worst flooding in Cambodia in at least a decade, with the hardest-hit areas along the Mekong River and around Cambodia's massive inland lake, the Tonle Sap.

Presenter: Liam Cochrane
Speaker: Bill Pennington, director of programs for Care Cambodia

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Read: Eyewitness account of the Cambodian floods.