Aid Flights To Proceed To Myanmar Tomorrow - World Food Programme
May 15th, 2008 | by admin |
Statement by Nancy E. Roman, Director of Public Policy and Communications.
“The World Food Programme has decided to send in two relief flights asplanned tomorrow, while discussions continue with the Government of Myanmaron the distribution of the food that was flown in today, and not releasedto WFP. Today, two WFP flights arrived with high-energy biscuits,sufficient to feed 95,000 hungry people in Myanmar”.
“Yesterday, WFP airlifted enough high energy biscuits for 21,000 people,most of which has been delivered over the last 24 hours to the hardest-hitareas”.
WFP is the world’s largest humanitarian agency: this year, WFP plans tofeed more than 70 million people in around 80 countries.
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