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WFP launches food voucher project for half a million displaced Iraqis
11/12/2014
Twilight News / World Food Programme announced by the United Nations, for the launch of the project, food vouchers for half a million displaced Iraqis who have left their regions and cities due to their positions after tension control regulation Daash them since the tenth of the month of June. According to a statement issued by the United Nations, said the program began providing food vouchers to help half a million Iraqis have been displaced by the conflict in Iraq, noting that "this new system allows beneficiaries to choose their food themselves and prioritize their own needs. The statement said that "thanks to a donation by Japan's US $ 5 million and donated Germany amounting to US $ 2.2 million, the World Food Program began distributing food coupons in Soran in Erbil province, and reached an initial group of 500 women and men in the past week." . The statement added that "it is scheduled to begin in 1700 on the distribution of coupons and other people," adding that he "will be able to beneficiaries of these coupons from replacing food items in 11 stores have been identified, each person will receive a coupon worth US $ 26."
The statement quoted a person named Saher Ghanem Salem, aged 47, who fled from Mosul in August and now resides in Soran with his relatives, "this is the first time that we get the food vouchers and I think it's a good idea to buy food for ourselves, and decide what to cook every day. "
Salem added that "our knowledge that we can choose our food brings to our lives something Bdyarena reminds us that we left."
The statement pointed out that "food vouchers will benefit the families that settled in safer places where food is available in the market but they can not afford to buy."
WFP plans within the next three months for the distribution of food coupons to half a million displaced people in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region.
For her part, the actress and the director of the national office of the World Food Program in Iraq, Jane Pierce, "The Food Stamp and effective way to enable internally displaced people from access to food, and provide the ability to choose for women and men who are suffering because of the conflict."
And help the World Food Programme in Iraq, Syrian refugees in camps vouchers since October 2012, where pumping nearly 40 million US dollars in the local retail trade.
WFP also distributed food vouchers for Syrian refugees in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. Local economies have received in these five countries through this more than US $ 500 million since the start of the project the system of vouchers in 2012.
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11/12/2014
Twilight News / World Food Programme announced by the United Nations, for the launch of the project, food vouchers for half a million displaced Iraqis who have left their regions and cities due to their positions after tension control regulation Daash them since the tenth of the month of June. According to a statement issued by the United Nations, said the program began providing food vouchers to help half a million Iraqis have been displaced by the conflict in Iraq, noting that "this new system allows beneficiaries to choose their food themselves and prioritize their own needs. The statement said that "thanks to a donation by Japan's US $ 5 million and donated Germany amounting to US $ 2.2 million, the World Food Program began distributing food coupons in Soran in Erbil province, and reached an initial group of 500 women and men in the past week." . The statement added that "it is scheduled to begin in 1700 on the distribution of coupons and other people," adding that he "will be able to beneficiaries of these coupons from replacing food items in 11 stores have been identified, each person will receive a coupon worth US $ 26."
The statement quoted a person named Saher Ghanem Salem, aged 47, who fled from Mosul in August and now resides in Soran with his relatives, "this is the first time that we get the food vouchers and I think it's a good idea to buy food for ourselves, and decide what to cook every day. "
Salem added that "our knowledge that we can choose our food brings to our lives something Bdyarena reminds us that we left."
The statement pointed out that "food vouchers will benefit the families that settled in safer places where food is available in the market but they can not afford to buy."
WFP plans within the next three months for the distribution of food coupons to half a million displaced people in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region.
For her part, the actress and the director of the national office of the World Food Program in Iraq, Jane Pierce, "The Food Stamp and effective way to enable internally displaced people from access to food, and provide the ability to choose for women and men who are suffering because of the conflict."
And help the World Food Programme in Iraq, Syrian refugees in camps vouchers since October 2012, where pumping nearly 40 million US dollars in the local retail trade.
WFP also distributed food vouchers for Syrian refugees in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. Local economies have received in these five countries through this more than US $ 500 million since the start of the project the system of vouchers in 2012.
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