Republic of Korea Provides rice and Funds for Refugees and Ugandans Threatened by Locusts
By Keefa Nuwahereza
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed 5,000 metric tonnes of rice and us$3,000,000 in cash from the republic of Korea to provide much needed relief assistance to 781,000 people including refugees and Ugandans threatened by locusts. “WFP is extremely grateful for the continued generosity of the republic of Korea since 2018 and its appreciation of the immense humanitarian needs in Uganda, which were suddenly made even more complicated but COVID-19,” said WFP Officer in Charge Ryan Aderson.
“This contributed of 5,000 metric tons
of rice found us at a cross road when we were considering whether to make
deeper ratio cuts for refuges because of a shortage of funding, even as we have
evidence that they already face high food insecurity,” he ad...