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$1.5B To Help Children Survive Food Crisis
July 15, 2008
By Jon Slater
A $1.5 billion programme to aid millions of children at increased risk of severe hunger and malnutrition because of rising food prices was launched today by Plan, the leading international children's NGO.
The investment will pay for food aid and income security over the next decade for poor families hit hardest by the current food crisis, which has seen the price of wheat and other staple foods more than double since 2006. Plan expects the funding to help more than five million people during the first half of the programme. A global taskforce will examine the implications of the food crisis for Plan's work.
Plan's initiative was launched in the week that world leaders at the G8 summit in Japan agreed to provide additional help to poor people hardest hit by rising prices.
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category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 15 July 2008
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