Food For Work Programme To Support Hunger Victims In Kapoeta Region
The Kapoeta North County Commissioner, Lokai Iko Loteyo has announced that the World Food Programme (WFP) has intervened on the hunger situation in Kapoeta region. 27 February 2013 By Peter Lokale Nakimangole TORIT, 26 February 2013 [Gurtong] – The WFP’s Food For Work (FFW) programme has lessened the situation as residents are offered food as the support the construction of the roads connecting bomas and payams in the county. The WFP has contracted Kapoeta Development Institute (KDI) to undertake the ongoing assignments on the provisions and distribution of FFW which commenced last month. So far more than 4,000 beneficiaries have now been registered and given the support as they continue working on the surveyed roads to increase broader access to the remote region. Earlier this month, the four commissioners of Budi, Kapoeta North, South and East Counties to met to discuss the ongoing famine in Greater Kapoeta and demanded the government, civil society organisations (CSOs) and local merchants to provide aid quickly. In November 2012, an MP representing Kapoeta North County in Constituency No. 07 at the Eastern Equatoria State Legislative Assembly’s Charles Lokonoi Ambrose reported that more than 65, 000 residents of Kapoeta North County were set to receive food aid from the World Food Programme due to crop failure in the area. He said the most vulnerable communities are in Wokobu, Najie and Nakwa payams. Lokonoi currently doubles as MP and State Minister for Transport and Road in the state government of Eastern Equatoria State. He told the media that his community responded optimistically on efforts by the state to put up with social amenities and the community members had come out thanking the government for the recently constructed dams in their territory. Most of the affected areas are not easily accessible due to the poor road network and the locals are now busy opening roads connecting payams to bomas. Posted in: Home, Humanitarian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
