As a result, WFP has only been able to distribute 12,300 mt of food per month instead of the 17,500 MT needed. The number of beneficiaries has been cut by 30 percent, from the targeted one and a half million to just one million. In general, we have been able to provide only 1,800 kilo calories. If there are no additional contributions made in the next few weeks, we will have to reduce distributions even further by the end of January, perhaps only assisting the severely malnourished in therapeutic feeding centers. In November, WFP along with other humanitarian aid organization working in Angola presented a coordinated appeal to the international donor community.
Speed is of the essence.
We must have these pledges by the new year. WFP said IDPs who had been resettled were expected to grow their own food and become self-sufficient within at least two harvest cycles. But a lack of safe arable land, seeds and tools had slowed down this process. In addition, WFP said, late rains in large areas of the country may negatively impact the coming harvest. Right now they don't have enough food to eat.