ETHIOPIA: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME (WFP) INTENSIFIES ITS EFFORTS TO RAISE AID AND SUPPORT FOR OVER 14 MILLION PEOPLE AT RISK FROM FAMINE

Record ID: 645115

  • Title: ETHIOPIA: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME (WFP) INTENSIFIES ITS EFFORTS TO RAISE AID AND SUPPORT FOR OVER 14 MILLION PEOPLE AT RISK FROM FAMINE
  • Date: 19th January 2003
  • Summary: (U1) OROMIA REGION, ETHIOPIA (JANUARY 19, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS OF VILLAGERS WAITING FOR ARRIVAL OF WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME (WFP) OFFICIALS (2 SHOTS) 0.08 2. CLOSEUP OF CHILD SUFFERING FROM MALNUTRITION 0.12 3. CLOSEUP OF ON THE FACE OF THE CHILD'S MOTHER 0.15 4. SCU/WS: MORE OF VILLAGERS WAITING FOR ARRIVAL OF WFP OFFICIALS (2 SHOTS) 0.23 5. SCU: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR JAMES MORRIS ARRIVING 0.33 6. WS/CU: VILLAGERS (2 SHOTS) 0.41 7. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR JAMES MORRIS SAYING: "We admire your courage and please know that you are not here alone, the rest of the world loves you and cares for you and will do its very best to provide food, to be helpful." 0.55 8. MV: UN VEHICLES LEAVING VILLAGE 1.00 9. VARIOUS OF BUILDERS MOVING SOIL AND STONES (3 SHOTS) 1.20 10. WS/SV: JAMES MORRIS SPEAKING WITH THE BUILDERS (2 SHOTS) 1.26 11. MV: BUILDERS DUMPING SOIL AND STONES OVER WATER PAN'S EDGE 1.40 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: OROMIA REGION, ETHIOPIA
  • Country: Ethiopia
  • Reuters ID: LVA46LU8SHRHJ0KG25KK51TXAHOH
  • Story Text: The World Food Programme has intensified its efforts to
    raise aid and support for over 14 million people the world
    body estimates are at risk of famine. Executive Director of
    WFP James Morris added a boost to the aid campaign by
    personally visiting some of Ethiopia's most affected areas.


    Dozens of emaciated children and their parents
    assembled at Defiker village, most of them with match-stick
    legs and protruding bellies due to malnutrition, to welcome
    visitors from the World Food Programme.

    Health workers say most of the villagers here are caught
    in the centre of a drought stalking the Horn of Africa and
    they suffer from kwashiorkor, marasmus and diarrhoea, all
    diseases associated with lack of food.

    The United Nation's food agency says that about 14 million
    Ethiopians face worsening food shortages and possible
    starvation after a long dry spell that led to a poor harvest
    in many parts of the country of around 67 million people.

    Ethiopia's government has appealed for 1.4 million tonnes
    of food assistance to feed its starving people.

    "We admire your courage and please know that you are not
    here alone, the rest of the world loves you and cares for you
    and will do its very best to provide food, to be helpful,"
    said the Executive Director of WFP James Morris.

    The Ethiopian government has complained recently that
    donors are not moving fast enough to help stop a crisis that
    could surpass the Great Famine of 1984. U.S. Agency for
    International Development (USAID) has led the way by
    announcing a new food aid pledge of 262,000 tonnes to help
    feed the drought victims. The new pledge brings the total U.S.

    Government food aid contribution to a level of 500,000 tonnes
    since July 2000.

    Morris also visited the construction site of a water pan
    that will trap rain water for agriculture and domestic needs.

    JRC/

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