On the West Bank as a humanitarian cargo delivered 2,000 tons of Russian flour, which will be distributed to the most needy Palestinians in humanitarian programs of the World Food Programme.
JERUSALEM - On the West Bank as a humanitarian cargo delivered 2000 tons of Russian flour, which will be distributed to the most needy Palestinians in humanitarian programs of the World Food Programme.
According to the WFP, about 40% of the residents of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank live below the poverty line due to food security and economic constraints. That they sent humanitarian programs of the organization. In 2012, WFP plans to assist about 285 tsyacham people in the Gaza Strip and about 360 thousand people in the West Bank.
"Help from Russia will give us the ability to provide food for 90,000 people for a month - said Anna Troll Lindgren, WFP representative in the Palestinian Authority. - This is the poorest and most vulnerable people in the West Bank, which no one else to rely on. In recent months, the Palestinian Authority has grown a living wage price inflation on food and fuel. So generous donations from donors who are ready, like Russia, to respond flexibly to changes allow us to continue the humanitarian programs and prevent emergency situations which otherwise would have been inevitable. "
The first residents have received humanitarian aid Bedouin village Michmash in the Dead Sea and a female Orthodox orphanage in Jerusalem suburb of Bethany, where pupils, in a medium of Arab Christians do nuns Russian Orthodox Church abroad.
Each year, the Russian Federation provides about 35-37 million to support WFP humanitarian programs in the world and is one of the largest donors to the organization. Only in 2012, with the generous financial support of the Russian Federation of the program, WFP implemented in Armenia, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, North Korea, Kenya, the Palestinian Authority and other countries.
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