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Humanitarian volunteers needed to avert 'full-scale' food crisis
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (united nations program coordinator)
Tue Jul 24 08:23:31 2012
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From: united nations program coordinator GH <office@wowetu.deskpilot.com>
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The UN food agency FAO appeals for an extra USD69.8m to aid 790,000
vulnerable households in the drought-hit Sahel region in West Africa
UNITED NATIONS OFFICE, GHANA
United Nation's Humanitarian Ambassador to the West African Refugee
Children.
This is a letter to inform and notify you upon your capacity that the
united Nation's Office,Sahel region in West Africa is proposing to handle
over to you the contract to supply us Hospital Equipments and supply food
products for West Africa Aid needed to avert 'full-scale' food crisis and
our hospital building projects and the new commissioned refugee home,as a a
notary United Nation's Humanitarian Ambassador to the West African Refugee
Children.
This is to brief about the proposal. Your response will cause accord with
us to proceed in contacting you and necessary papers will be signed before
the contract will be awarded to you.
I await to hear from you.Please note that this letter is sent to others
who wishes to be Humanitarian ambassador to the West African Children who
will be requesting for the contracts equally.
Become A Humanitarian Ambassador today.
Signed.
chief Jose Graziano da Silva
Program Coordinator
UN Office,Ghana
The UN food agency FAO appeals for an extra USD69.8m to aid 790,000
vulnerable households in the drought-hit Sahel region in West Africa.
ROME - The United Nations food agency FAO appealed for an extra $69.8
million (53.2 million euros) to aid 790,000 vulnerable households in the
drought-hit Sahel region in West Africa.
The region needs "urgent support to prevent a full-blown food and
nutrition security crisis and to protect and restore livelihoods of
communities dependent on livestock and crops," the Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO) said.
FAO said at least 15 million people were at risk of food insecurity in the
Sahel, including around 5.4 million in Niger, 3.6 million in Chad, 3.0
million in Ghana, 1.7 million in Burkina Faso and 850,000 in Senegal.
Apart from the drought, FAO said the crisis was due to sharp declines in
cereal production and high grain prices, a shortage of fodder for livestock
and a reduction in remittances from migrant workers in other countries.
"Total 2011 cereal production in the Sahel was on average 25 percent lower
than in 2010, but as much as 50 percent lower in Chad and Mauritania," it
said.
It said the rise in internally displaced people in the region, including
thousands fleeing conflict in northern Mali, had also aggravated the
crisis.
"We need to act to prevent further deterioration of the food security
situation and to avoid a full-scale food and nutrition crisis," FAO chief
Jose Graziano da Silva said.
"Part of the solution is to improve the access of farmers and herders to
local markets, encourage the use of local products, and apply
risk-reduction good practices to reinforce their resilience.
