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UN: UN
FOOD AGENCY MOVES FROM RELIEF TO RECOVERY IN DJIBOUTI:
23/6/2007 (MaximsNews.com,
U.N.)
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UNITED NATIONS - / www.MaximsNews.com@
U.N./
- 23
June 2007
Aiming to help pastoralists hit by drought in
Djibouti, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced yesterday it
is gradually transitioning
from emergency assistance to Food for Work projects in the country.
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The shift aims
at leaving permanent structures for pastoralists in most projects in
partnership with the Government and other UN agencies, said WFP Djibouti
Country Director Benoit Thiry.
Food for Work
projects involve WFP, other organizations and the Government contracting
local communities to build lasting infrastructure such as gardens and wells
that will help them cope with droughts.
Some 5,600 Food
for Work participants will receive a five-person family ration in exchange
for their work, according to the agency.
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At the
peak of the last lean season in September 2006, when food from the last harvest
ran out, a fifth of the population of Djibouti lacked adequate food, WFP said.
This
year, without assistance, many people will be forced to move to Djibouti city,
where they lose their pastoralist lifestyle and are often forced to dwell in the
spreading slums on the outskirts of the capital. We are trying to help those
who want to stay in rural areas by improving water access and gardens, said
Mr. Thiry.
Despite
shifting from free food distributions to Food For Work programmes, WFP will
still maintain a contingency food stock in Djibouti to use in case of an
emergency. Assistance to refugees from Somalia, Eritrea and Ethiopia, school
feeding and food for nutritional centres will continue.
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