INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The World Food Programme (WFP) has announced in a report that the organization was able to reach nearly 250,000 food-insecure people across
Afghanistan with the assistance from China in the past few months.The report said WFP was able to procure more than 2,000 metric tons of
food, including fortified wheat flour and fortified vegetable oil, yellow split peas and salt which was distributed to more than 35,000
families or nearly 250,000 people across the country.&Entire communities across Afghanistan experience despair and hunger,& said Ma Chen
Guang, Counsellor of Economic and Commercial Affairs of the Chinese Embassy in Afghanistan, at a ceremony in Kabul on Thursday.&&China will
continue to work with the World Food Programme to provide food assistance to hungry Afghan families in need of assistance for survival.&The
report stated: &The contribution from China came at a critical moment when a massive funding shortfall put at risk WFP&s work in Afghanistan
Last year, WFP had to cut 10 million people from assistance and this summer, due to the ongoing funding crisis, 11 million people did not
receive emergency food assistance
&This included more than 2 million mothers and their children who received no specialized supplementary food to combat
malnutrition.&&Afghanistan remains a global hunger hotspot and more than three-quarters of all people across the country cannot afford a
nutritious diet that keeps them from falling into malnutrition,& said Hsiao-Wei Lee, Country Director of WFP Afghanistan
&Families across the country need continued emergency food assistance to get through the winter months.&The post WFP delivers life-saving
food to nearly 250,000 in Afghanistan first appeared on Ariana News.
