UN releases 5 months of food rations for vulnerable groups in Unity state
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June 23, 2013 (BENTIU) - The United Nations World Food Programme has
granted five months food assistance to 870 household of vulnerable men
and women in Unity state.
The first food distribution to the victims was done on May 15 last
following a request to help elderly people that was proposed by the
ministry of gender, child and social welfare.
The food aid, which will reach 1,114 people in Rubkotna and Bentiu is
aimed at empower the helpless people in the communities.
According to ministry officials the purpose of amending the project is
to encourage the victims of last year’s flood to engage in cultivation
this year as some have lost hope of following the devastation caused.
In Unity state over 7,000 people were affected by last year’s floods,
which caused a food security crisis.
Although situation has improved, in April this year 15 people starved
to death in Payinjiar county due to poor a harvest, which left family
member unable to produces their own food.
But authorities have submitted series of request to WFP Bentiu office
to assist victims of floods in Bentiu, Rubkotna and Payinjiar County.
In a response to the request to help victims of last year’s flooding
in Bentiu, Rubkotna and Payinjiar county, WFP approved the five months
distribution to the vulnerable people.
Unity state’s minister of gender, child and social welfare, Lubna
Abdelgani, says the aims of distributing foods to the vulnerable group
are another way to encourage them to cultivate and produce food for
themselves.
“We have found these vulnerable of people as a result of last floods
which have washed away their crops before mature stage, many people
have no foods, and to encourage such people to cultivates, there is
need to support them in terms of food provision in order to push them
cultivate their own food, and these vulnerable people faced severely
hunger”, said Abdelgani.
Angelina Nyakong Wal, 40, said on Friday that the food rations were
helping her to return to farming.
“If the farm I’m cultivating do well, I’m sure we will not face hunger
any more, we appreciate the support delivered by UN on us for period
of five months. Hopefully next year my children will be fine, and I
will have enough food for consumptions”, added Wal.
However, Akur Bol an internal displace person from Abyei says the
ration is not enough and can only make them survive for a short period
of time.
"The food they gave us is only for a month, and sometime it will not
last longer as indicate in the distribution schedule, because in our
family you may find a family has 6-8 children, and the food they give
to them is a bags of sorghum and a bucket of lentals. That is not
enough. We have to bear with situation whether the food is enough or
not everyone have to meet the date", said Bol.
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