Staff Reporter
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) yesterday announced a US 52 million dollars, six-month plan to provide emergency food aid to 2.2 million Bangladeshis affected by the recent cycle, the UN News Centre reported from the UN Headquarters in New York.
The aim is to avoid a repeat of the surge in malnutrition rates that typically follows a cyclone in Bangladesh, the agency said. “This time, WFP will start longer-term distributions to families with hopes of preventing increases in malnutrition throughout the region,” said WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran. [Read more]