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Friday, April 03, 2009 - 05.03 GMT
USAID donates essential food items for IDPs

 
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has donated $15 million worth food aid to the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) to be distributed among the Internally Displaced Persons in North and East.

USAID, the development agency of the U.S. Government, announced that 19,490 metric tons of emergency food relief will be used to support WFP activities in the North and East. The USAID donation will include 14,700 metric tons of wheat, 3,750 metric tons of lentils, and 1,040 metric tons of vegetable oil, enough to provide essential food to 300,000 people over four months. The food aid is scheduled to arrive in June 2009.

In 2008, USAID provided 28,393 metric tons of food relief valued at almost $29 million.
 



 


 
 
   
   
   
   
   

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