[NYTr] UN Food Agency Rushes Emergency Aid to Guatemala
 
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:01:48 -0500 (CDT)

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Radio Havana Cuba
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UN Food Agency Rushes Aid to Guatemala

Guatemala City, October 31 (RHC)-- The United Nations World Food
Program (WFP) is helping more than one thousand families affected by
recent floods in Guatemala. Based on an assessment of the affected
areas on the country's Pacific coast carried out in cooperation with
the Government, WFP is helping 1,128 families in the Municipality of
OcC3s who lost their crops following heavy rains.

Speaking with reporters in the Guatemalan capital, the WFP's
representative in the Central American country, Willem van Milink, said
that the food assistance is "an example of the good coordination that
exists among the institutions involved in responding immediately to the
recurrent situations during the rainy season."

The UN agency also plans to distribute rations to nearly 550 people now
in temporary shelters. The packages, which include corn, oil and
fortified flour, provide the minimum of 2,120 calories for each person
daily.

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