January-13-10
The largest distributor of WFP food aid in Somalia, World Vision says only urgent action by the international community will prevent humanitarian disaster.
“The international community must engage quickly with all factions in the Somalia conflict to allow peace to return and the resumption of the distribution of urgent humanitarian aid by World Vision and other aid organisations,” said World Vision Somalia’s Kevin Mackey. “Continued isolation of Somalia by the international community will result in catastrophe.”
The WFP announcement to suspend temporarily operations, taken after an increase in threats against staff, is expected to affect the nutrition programmes in the regions of Middle Juba and Bay/Bakool.
World Vision is currently assisting 6,000 children in these regions with supplementary feeding as well as a school feeding programme.
“If nothing is done to restore the supply in food aid, these children and many, many others will be starving by March,” concluded Mackey.
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