Cash assistance

Partnering in with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), together with MORDI Tonga Trust in providing cash assistance for 800 families in Tonga who were directly affected by the recent crisis, the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcanic eruption and tsunami that occurred in Tonga on 15^th January. 

The programme is supported by the National Emergency Management Office (NEMO) and Tonga’s Recovery and Resilience Building Plan and is financed by the United National Central Emergency Recovery Fund (UN-CERF).

The cash assistance programme addresses the urgent needs of 800 families, with each family receiving TOP$489 (USD 220). If two or three nuclear families are living together in one house, each family is treated separately and are eligible to receive the cash assistance individually.