US food aid arrives

UNB, Dhaka

A consignment of 26,000 metric tons of wheat as US food aid, worth approximately $17 million, has arrived at Chittagong seaport by a US-registered vessel.
The food-grain, carried into the port Monday by the vessel ‘ITB Philadelphia’, will be used for the United Nation’s World

Food Program’s (WFP) national school feeding program and to ensure food availability to the poorest of the poor living in the cyclone Sidr-affected areas, said a US Embassy release here Wednesday. [Read more]


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