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World Food Programme seeks urgent funds to help 350,000 Venezuelan migrants
30.04.2018 08:02 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
As of last week, the United Nations emergency food relief agency, World Food Programme (WFP), issued an urgent appeal for nearly US$46 million to feed some 350,000 impoverished migrants who crossed the border from Venezuela into Colombia, as well as host communities with pre-existing vulnerabilities, UN Radio reports.
«We urgently need funds so that we can bring vital aid to migrant families who have left their homes behind, and don’t know where their next meal is coming from,» Miguel Barreto, the Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the UN World Food Programme (WFP), admitted.
«We also need to support host communities, many of them already poor, who have shown great generosity as they bear the brunt of this crisis,» he added, referring to the deepening socio-economic turmoil inside Venezuela.
At present, the UN agency is working with temporary shelters or community kitchens run by religious organizations and other partners, purchasing the food needed to prepare hot meals for newly arrived migrants.
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