A daily five-minute news wrap for English learners and people with disability.
Welcome to SBS News in Easy English. I'm Sydney Lang.
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Australia will send five million dollars to help communities in Nepal after major flooding.
At least 39 Australian people are missing in Nepal.
The government will send a special team to the area to help out.
The floods have killed almost 400 people and more than one thousand are missing.
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong told Channel Nine that the government is helping out.
"I did speak to the ambassador in Nepal yesterday afternoon to talk to him about what we needed to do and the support we wanted to provide. We provided, we've got about 20 people on the ground. We are providing more assistance in terms of rapid response team to help with the humanitarian response, and also my consular officers, we'll build on that over the coming days."
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Thousands of children are affected by the flooding in Nepal and need assistance.
The United Nations Children’s agency say 18 schools have been ruined and other damaged.
The UN is handing out supplies and supporting children with clean water, food and health support.
UN Nepal's Preena Shrestha says children must be kept safe.
"UNICEF is on the ground. We're working with the government and partners to assess the situation, to understand what it is that children and families need and to respond accordingly. But our priority first and foremost is the children, to make sure that they're safe, protected and eventually able to recover from this disaster."
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The New South Wales government will start to provide vaccinations for birds to protect them from bird flu.
They will work with Taronga Zoo to vaccinate bird species that are at risk of the virus.
There are 16 confirmed cases of bird flu in New South Wales.
State Environment Minister Penny Sharpe says it is important to protect native birds.
"As they're vaccinating, we're learning about what needs to happen. Understand that we've got to catch them once. We have to vaccinate them. Then we need to observe them, and then we need to also vaccinate them again in three to four weeks. So it's a really careful program, but it gives us hope that we can protect populations over time, and particularly we can look after those very endangered species that we have."
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The Australian Football League will hold Indigenous round on the weekend to celebrate the work of First Nations players.
Yuin woman and Collingwood player Kalinda Howarth says the round is a chance to educate people.
"There's still a lot of issues that are affecting our people today, it's really important that we still get to shine a light on that, and as AFLW players and as elite athletes, we have the spotlight. So, it's really important that we get to share those messages and yeah, promote our love for the culture and the game."
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Thanks for listening to SBS News in Easy English. I'm Sydney Lang.
