World Food Program Makes Appeal
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ROME — With food and fuel prices soaring, the United Nations agency charged with feeding the world’s hungry has launched what it calls an “extraordinary emergency appeal” to cover costs and avoid having to cut aid, a senior official said yesterday.
The World Food Program called on donor nations for urgent help in closing a funding gap of more than $500 million by May 1.
If money doesn’t arrive by then, The executive director, Josette Sheeran, said in a letter to donors, the WFP might be forced to cut food rations “for those who rely on the world to stand by them during times of abject need.”
