Ms. Bertini pointed out that people were still pouring out of Kosovo. We need donors to cover the remaining 20 percent. WFP's immediate appeal was for 32,700 metric tons of emergency food rations and financial resources to cover the costs of delivering food to 650,000 people for the next three months. We need these additional funds to avert a deterioration of the nutritional status of refugees. Some of the refugees have not had enough to eat since the war began inside Kosovo more than a year ago.
Children are particularly hungry and vulnerable.
The mission will review what agricultural assistance is needed to secure increased food production during spring and summer. FAO's goal is to help Albania and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to cope with the huge influx of refugees by increasing local food supplies through the production of short term crops such as vegetables, potatoes, maize and back yard poultry. An HRI Project. All Rights Reserved.