World Food Program Approves
$lBO Million For 17 Projects
WASHINGTON, 12 May mg boarding and day students
The Inter-Governmental Com- for five years. Education mmis
mittee of the World Food Pro- ter Abdel Hadi asked for aid to
gram today completed its exa- extend schooling to large num
raination of requests for food bers of children who now can
aid and authorized $lBO million not attend classes,
for 17 projects in 14 countries Turkey $l5 million for
The aid will be for from two to four years to enable the country
five years. to develop a permanent fores-
Foods of various types pledg- try labor force and withdraw
ed to the Program by members people from uneconomic wheat
of the United Nations and the farming in the forest belt. Also
Food and Agriculture Organize- $1 million for three years for
tion, largest of the UN specializ- volunteer workers, helping wipe
ed agencies, are used mainly as out Malaria and control Tra
wages or incentives to workers choma, who will get packets of
and volunteers engaged in a food as incentives.
variety of operations, for Lesotho $l2 million for
mothers, children, students and feeding children, primary
the sick, and for feeding live- school students, expectant and
stock. nursing mothers and tuberculo-
The total of $lBO million in- sis patients. This project has
eludes $45 million for a land been m operation for some
settlement and reclamation pro- years and now has been extend
ject in the United Arab Repub- ed f or a further five,
lie, and $42.2 million for Colom- China (Taiwan) —sB million
bia to back up its national nu- for five years in foods for chil
trition and education campaign dren and attendants at rural
Other countries for which day-care nurseries while par
projects were approved are the ents are engaged in develop-
Sudan, Turkey, Lesotho, China ment work Also $6 3 million for
(Taiwan), Mauritius, Syria, Bur- five years for workers and their
undi, Bolivia, Ceylon, India, Af- families engaged in soil con
ghanistan and Iraq. servation.
Sudan $24 million for feed- Mauritius —ss 5 million for
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school-feeding program for 124,-
000 primary-school children.
Syria $3.9 million for four
years for workers building the
Aleppo-Akkari and Kamichlie-
Latakia Railway lines.
Burundi $3.25 million for
five years for secondary school
students, their numbers rising
to 17,000 from 10,000.
Bolivia $2.8 million for
two years for feeding workers
and their families engaged in
lural development in the Alti
plano (highlands) and the val
leys.
Ceylon $2 8 million for
two years for continued sup
port to the voluntary labor
(Shramadana) engaged in clear
ing land, improving irrigation
and similar works Also $1.4
million for the development of
the poultry industry and pro
duction of corn.
India $2.26 million for
three years, covering part of the
wages of workers on a soil-con
servation scheme in Maharash
tra State.
Afghanistan $2.2 million in
food assistance for three years
for workers building a chemical
fertilizer plant and an electric
power station.
Iraq $l2 million for two
years in support of urban deve
lopment.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 24,1969—23
The Inter-governmental Com
mittee is meeting at WFP’s
headquarters in Rome. Last
week officials told the govern
ing body that between now and
1973 WFP could use $440 mil
lion worth of dairy products,
dried eggs and dried and cann
ed fish for projects already ap
proved or under consideration.
This amounts to 680,000 tons
of dairy products, 124,000 of
canned and dried fish and 14,-
000 tons of egg powder. These
products constitute burdensome
surpluses in a number of coun
tries, officials said.
The officials also said that
during the past eight months
WFP alloted $5 6 million to
help relieve human suffering in
10 emergency situations,
brought on by flood, drought,
earthquake or the movement of
populations because ,of political
reasons.
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Syria was the recipient coun
try in two of these cases. Other
nations receiving WFP emer
gency aid were Nigeria, Zambia,
Gabon, Sudan, the United Aiab
Republic, Gambia, Mauutania
and Niger. More than 600,000
persons received food aid in
these 10 cases, officials said.
During the current meeting,
WFP received additional con
tributions totalling $500,000.
Finland pledged $476,000 and
Tanzania $14,006 in food com
modities. The Congo (Inshasa)
pledged $5,377, Upper Volta $2,
041, Gambia $4BO 00 and Mal
to $340 in cash Along with auto
matic matching contributions
from the United States, these
new pledges bring to $136 mil
lion the resources available to
WFP during 1969 and 1970, offi
cials said
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