WFP Sudan welcomes $2.7 million contribution from Germany

10/09/2014 22:30

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a $2.7 million contribution from the Government of Germany. WFP will use the funds to buy 2,212 tons of Super Cereal, a nutrient-dense food adapted to prevent acute malnutrition, particularly among children in Sudan, the UN agency said in a statement released today (Wednesday). Super Cereal will benefit 204,250 pregnant and nursing women, as well as children under-five-years-old in Sudan for almost three months. “We are very grateful for this contribution which will enable us to prevent malnutrition among children, both in families displaced in the first half of this year in Darfur, as well as those who have fled the conflict in South Sudan, and sought refuge here in Sudan”, said WFP Country Director Adnan Khan.   WFP and its partners are currently implementing nutrition programmes to assist some 182,000 children, pregnant women, and nursing mothers across Darfur, and another 80,800 children in Kassala, Red Sea, and South Kordofan states. Besides WFP’s nutrition programme, the German government also contributed $1.3 million in June towards the UN Humanitarian Air Service (Unhas).  The service, run by WFP, is widely used by members of the humanitarian community in Sudan, especially those working in areas where air transport is the only means of reaching the remote communities that they serve.   Since 2010, Germany has contributed some $13.5 million towards WFP’s emergency operation in Sudan, in addition to almost $3.9 million towards Unhas. Sudan remains one of WFP’s largest and most complex operations, providing food assistance to people suffering from conflict, displacement and chronic under-nourishment in Darfur, as well as in the east and border areas to the south. In 2014, WFP plans to assist 4.1 million people across Sudan, 3.2 million of whom are in the conflict-affected region of Darfur through general food distributions, food for training, food for work, school feeding and nutrition programmes to prevent and treat moderate acute malnutrition among women and children. File photo: A camp elder of Naivasha camp for the displaced in North Darfur welcomes the arrival of WFP lorries to deliver 350 metric tons of food (oil and sorghum) to the Naivasha and Shadad camps, February 2014 (Albert González Farran/Unamid)Related: WFP reduces food rations for Darfur displaced (4 September 2014)

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a $2.7 million contribution from the Government of Germany.

WFP will use the funds to buy 2,212 tons of Super Cereal, a nutrient-dense food adapted to prevent acute malnutrition, particularly among children in Sudan, the UN agency said in a statement released today (Wednesday).

Super Cereal will benefit 204,250 pregnant and nursing women, as well as children under-five-years-old in Sudan for almost three months.

“We are very grateful for this contribution which will enable us to prevent malnutrition among children, both in families displaced in the first half of this year in Darfur, as well as those who have fled the conflict in South Sudan, and sought refuge here in Sudan”, said WFP Country Director Adnan Khan.  

WFP and its partners are currently implementing nutrition programmes to assist some 182,000 children, pregnant women, and nursing mothers across Darfur, and another 80,800 children in Kassala, Red Sea, and South Kordofan states.

Besides WFP’s nutrition programme, the German government also contributed $1.3 million in June towards the UN Humanitarian Air Service (Unhas).  The service, run by WFP, is widely used by members of the humanitarian community in Sudan, especially those working in areas where air transport is the only means of reaching the remote communities that they serve.  

Since 2010, Germany has contributed some $13.5 million towards WFP’s emergency operation in Sudan, in addition to almost $3.9 million towards Unhas.

Sudan remains one of WFP’s largest and most complex operations, providing food assistance to people suffering from conflict, displacement and chronic under-nourishment in Darfur, as well as in the east and border areas to the south.

In 2014, WFP plans to assist 4.1 million people across Sudan, 3.2 million of whom are in the conflict-affected region of Darfur through general food distributions, food for training, food for work, school feeding and nutrition programmes to prevent and treat moderate acute malnutrition among women and children.

File photo: A camp elder of Naivasha camp for the displaced in North Darfur welcomes the arrival of WFP lorries to deliver 350 metric tons of food (oil and sorghum) to the Naivasha and Shadad camps, February 2014 (Albert González Farran/Unamid)

Related: WFP reduces food rations for Darfur displaced (4 September 2014)