(VOVworld) - A community-based disaster risk management project was launched in central Quang Binh province on Tuesday, expected to directly benefit 4,000 people and more than 24,000 others indirectly.

The project, scheduled to last through March 2018, is intended to mitigate the adverse impacts of increasingly common and serious natural disasters. It will be implemented at a cost of 600,000 EUR funded by the German Red Cross Society. Beneficiaries will include Phu Hai ward and Bao Ninh commune of Dong Hoi city and Thuan Hoa and Mai Hoa communes of Tuyen Hoa district which have been heavily affected by natural disasters.