Widikum:
World Food Program Succors 1,200 IDPs From Upper Bayang
Stor, Kuhn Paul
The World Food Program, WFP, has offered assistance to some 1,200 Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs who recently fled violent confrontations and insecurity in Upper Bayang Subdivision in Manyu Division of the South West Region to Widikum Subdivision, in Momo Division of the North West Region.
The WFB assistance was given to the IDPs on March 3. It was done at the Widikum Council chambers by the civil society organisation COMINSUD.
The IDPs who benefitted included some 1,249 individuals from 401 households including 45 persons with disabilities. They received food items including rice and vegetable oil.
Super Cereal + was equally distributed to 97 children between the age of six-23 months and 43 pregnant and breastfeeding women to prevent Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM). This exercise falls under World Food Programme’s Rapid Response Mechanism to alleviate the sufferance of people in desperate needs.
In 2023, WFP distributed a 10,182MT of food commodities (rice, pulses, beans, oil, salt and super cereal plus). It also transferred USD 2.29 million totally 183,268 beneficiaries in all the seven divisions of the North West Region. The percentage of female beneficiaries stood at 58%.
The World Food Programme has been providing emergency food assistance to over 210,000 highly vulnerable crisis-affected population in the North West Region since 2019 through in-kind and cash modalities, including Blanket Supplementary Feeding Programme (BSFP). It targeted about 12,000 children from six to 23 months and pregnant and breastfeeding mothers in some selected localities in the North West Region based on the results of the 2021 ENSAN.
WFP has repeatedly reaffirmed its commitment to foster its vision and mission of saving lives and sustaining its inclusive approach.
