Peru: UN Agency Helps 80,000 Earthquake Survivors To Rebuild Their Lives
 
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:00:23 -0400

PERU: UN AGENCY HELPS 80,000 EARTHQUAKE SURVIVORS TO REBUILD THEIR LIVES
 
New York, Oct 30 2007  8:00AM
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is carrying out a project 
to help some 80,000 people in Peru affected by an earthquake 
which caused widespread death and destruction there in August. 

The quake affected some 370,000 residents in the central coast of 
the country, exacerbating conditions caused by months of low temperatures 
which had resulted in loss of crops, cattle and other means 

The $7 million, nine-month operation aims to prevent a deterioration 
of the nutritional status of the victims, especially children 
up to two years of age, women and the elderly. It also has a food-for-work 
component that will help affected residents reconstruct 
their homes and productive infrastructure, WFP said in a news release. 

"Although many people continue to face precarious living and working 
conditions, food assistance is arriving for those who need it 

In the first hours after the earthquake, WFP began an immediate response 
operation which provided some $500,000 worth of assistance 

The new effort is funded by donors as well as the UN's own Central 
Emergency Response Fund (CERF), which was set up to close the resource 
gap that can hamper emergency relief efforts in their early 

 2007-10-30 00:00:00.000 


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