The World Food Programme (WFP) is to provide 482,000 Ghanaians with food aid through 2005 to support efforts to reduce poverty in Ghana, the UN agency announced on Wednesday. WFP’s Ghana Country Programme, designed in close collaboration with the Ghanaian government, will supply beneficiaries with 35,000 mt of food over the next four years. Linked to projects run by other UN agencies and NGOs, it covers community health and nutrition education, girls’ education and savannah resource management and is budgeted at US $15.3 million. Another US $4.7 million will be requested for HIV/AIDS programmes, WFP said.
Source: GhanaWeb
