NGO working to fly food supplies to 110 families in Pitas

Villagers in northern Pitas district getting their supplies of rations from volunteers at a pick up point after main road links to their villages were cut off by floods about 10-days agao.

KOTA KINABALU: Aid workers are hoping to reach some 110 families who have run out of food in a remote area in Sabah’s northern Pitas peninsula after road links to their villages were cut off following the bad weather that hit the state last week.

Non-governmental organisation Reach Out is hoping to get food supplies flown into the villages, which became inaccessible after the main bridge linking them to the outside world was damaged by floods caused by heavy rains, while the surrounding sea remains choppy.