Le PAM distribue 1000 tonnes de vivres pour les personnes touchées par le conflit au Sri Lanka

L’aide alimentaire du PAM a été envoyé à bord d’un bateau affreté par le gouvernement du Sri Lanka sous pavillon du Comité International de la Croix Rouge, et est arrivé cette après-midi.

“La grande capacité du bateau affrété par le gouvernement a permis au PAM et à ses partenaires d’envoyer au plus vite cette aide alimentaire,” indique Adnan Khan, WFP Representative and Country Director.

“This is the largest shipment we have sent and it comes at a crucial time for these people.”

In addition to mixed food commodities, including rice, wheat flour, lentils, sugar, vegetable oil and CSB, WFP also shipped some 30 tons of complementary food items (vegetables and condiments) as well as non-food items on behalf of other UN agencies and partners.

Khan said the WFP food would be sufficient to feed approximately 100,000 people for 20 days.

Since road convoys to Vanni were discontinued in late January 2009 due to security concerns, WFP, with the support of the Government, has dispatched a total of 2,219 metric tonnes, including this most recent dispatch, using the sea route.

In addition to these shipments to the conflict zone, WFP is helping the Government to meet the food needs of nearly 60,000 displaced people who fled the conflict zone and are currently accommodated in transit camps/welfare villages in Jaffna, Mannar and Vavuniya.

Overall, WFP is providing food to 1.2 million people through emergency feeding and recovery programmes including food-for-education, food-for-work and mother-and-child health and nutrition.