About 5,000 slum-dwellers have taken shelter here. This food distribution programme is a part of the German government's relief operation in Bangladesh. Under this relief programme, food is being distributed in three slums at South Kamalapur, Gulshan and Muktamanda in the city in cooperation with the NGO 'German Doctors' working in Bangladesh.

The Federal Republic of Germany has committed about Tk 170 lakh for several projects of humanitarian aid to the flood victims. This aid is organised in close cooperation with the German Embassy in Dhaka through non-government organisations like Caritas, NETZ, Lichtbruekce and 'German Doctors'.