Additional grants totalling $11.4 million from the Disaster Relief Fund for three organisations to undertake relief projects for drought victims in Guangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan have been approved.

The Salvation Army will get a grant of $6.74 million, the Amity Foundation $3.42 million and the Association of Chinese Evangelical Ministry $1.24 million.

The grants are a further disbursement to the $124.2 million approved earlier for the government authorities of Guangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan, the Amity Foundation and World Vision, bringing the total amount of grants to $135.6 million.

The Government today said the approval was made under a fast-track mechanism formed on the advice of the Disaster Relief Fund Advisory Committee.