WFP to cut down food to Sri Lanka, say reports
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has announced that it is forced to cut down its rations to about one million Sri Lankans who are currently being fed in the North and East, as prices of essential grain are hitting record levels around the world.
WFP Country Director Mohamed Saleheen told local media that it would “suspend their food-for-work programme to about 175,000 people in the war-affected regions from May 1 and reduce rations of others from 1,900 kilocalories to 1,665 kilocalories per day per person.”
However he said that they would continue to assist the priority targets such as internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees, the economically displaced, pregnant women, nursing mothers, children under five, and school feeding, which he termed as “absolutely imperative”.
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WFP Country Director Mohamed Saleheen told local media that it would “suspend their food-for-work programme to about 175,000 people in the war-affected regions from May 1 and reduce rations of others from 1,900 kilocalories to 1,665 kilocalories per day per person.”
However he said that they would continue to assist the priority targets such as internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees, the economically displaced, pregnant women, nursing mothers, children under five, and school feeding, which he termed as “absolutely imperative”.
Extracted from,
http://www.colombopage.com/archive_08/April27125242JV.html
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