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World Food Program announces its need for $ 108 million for Iraq
5/22/15
Agencies - said the World Food Program of the United Nations, on Friday, on the need for $ 108 million to continue its work in Iraq until next October.
The Director of the Information Office of the Program Elisabeth Byrs, that "the work program plan are subject to a stop in areas in which it operates if there were no financial contributions in a timely manner."
Byers added that "the lack of funding to pay the UN to reduce the size of the monthly food rations distributed to displaced families outside the camps while it is almost entirely dependent on aid.
She said Byers "continued distribution of food aid operations in Anbar province to support the tens of thousands who continue to flee the fierce fighting gray area."
Byers pointed out that "about 25 000 people have received emergency food assistance, yesterday, in Habbaniyah, west of Baghdad, while additional supplies are needed enough for about 15 000 displaced people on their way to Amiriya in Fallujah."
Byers He noted that the program provided in last week's emergency supplies to more than 45 000 people in all parts of the affected areas, especially that most families had fled the violence in Ramadi, without food, water or shelter, but they did not know where to Flee "..
Byers confirmed that "the situation of these fugitives can be summarized in that they need almost full to all humanitarian assistance requires support from the international community to respond quickly to their plight." It ended 21 / l
He noted that the number of beneficiaries of food internationalist program since the beginning of the crisis of Ramadi on 10 April this year amounted to more than 208 thousand people have received food parcels in an emergency for a period of only three days.
The program also carried out on the distribution of people fleeing the conflict in Ramadi in Baghdad, Babil, Karbala and Wasit and Diyala, Erbil and Sulaymaniyah as well as newly displaced people in the eastern province of Anbar.
According to UN data has provided the World Food Program in the past year, food care for about 8.1 million of displaced persons affected by the conflict across the 18 provinces of Iraq.
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5/22/15
Agencies - said the World Food Program of the United Nations, on Friday, on the need for $ 108 million to continue its work in Iraq until next October.
The Director of the Information Office of the Program Elisabeth Byrs, that "the work program plan are subject to a stop in areas in which it operates if there were no financial contributions in a timely manner."
Byers added that "the lack of funding to pay the UN to reduce the size of the monthly food rations distributed to displaced families outside the camps while it is almost entirely dependent on aid.
She said Byers "continued distribution of food aid operations in Anbar province to support the tens of thousands who continue to flee the fierce fighting gray area."
Byers pointed out that "about 25 000 people have received emergency food assistance, yesterday, in Habbaniyah, west of Baghdad, while additional supplies are needed enough for about 15 000 displaced people on their way to Amiriya in Fallujah."
Byers He noted that the program provided in last week's emergency supplies to more than 45 000 people in all parts of the affected areas, especially that most families had fled the violence in Ramadi, without food, water or shelter, but they did not know where to Flee "..
Byers confirmed that "the situation of these fugitives can be summarized in that they need almost full to all humanitarian assistance requires support from the international community to respond quickly to their plight." It ended 21 / l
He noted that the number of beneficiaries of food internationalist program since the beginning of the crisis of Ramadi on 10 April this year amounted to more than 208 thousand people have received food parcels in an emergency for a period of only three days.
The program also carried out on the distribution of people fleeing the conflict in Ramadi in Baghdad, Babil, Karbala and Wasit and Diyala, Erbil and Sulaymaniyah as well as newly displaced people in the eastern province of Anbar.
According to UN data has provided the World Food Program in the past year, food care for about 8.1 million of displaced persons affected by the conflict across the 18 provinces of Iraq.
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