The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has provided Myanmar
with 175,544 tonnes of rice, worth 167.69 million USD, reported the
country’s media on April 11.
The aid from the
world’s largest humanitarian agency is expected to help the poor and
people short of food in Kachin, Chin, Rakhine, Shan, Kayin and Yangon
from now until 2015.
On April 10, the Myanmar
Ministry of Border Affairs and the WFP inked a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) on the rapid response to disasters, recovering and
raising the socio-economic position of residents in areas of conflict,
providing better access to education as well as coping with malnutrition
in people with HIV and pulmonary diseases.-VNA