The United Nations World Food Programme in Burma supplies the needy in
Burma with
food
Food is any substance consumed by an organism for nutritional support. Food is usually of plant, animal, or fungal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals. The substance is inge ...
and supplies.
Headed by Bhim Udas, the WFP in Burma provides food supplies consisting of
rice,
pulses and, iodized
salt, and
oil, particularly the poor and vulnerable in the northern
Rakhine and
Shan states of the country and the Magwe Division. The United Nations World Food Programme in Burma is responsible for benefiting around 500,000 - 600,000 people, often working with those infected by diseases such as
HIV-
AIDS
Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a retrovirus. Following initial infection an individual m ...
,
malaria, and
tuberculosis.
The head of the Burma Food Programme Udas has urged the
Government of Burma to provide more assistance in poorer areas of the country as during difficult periods it is often three to six months until supplies can be distributed fully and by then is often too late.
During the
2007 Burmese anti-government protests
The Saffron Revolution ( my, ရွှေဝါရောင်တော်လှန်ရေး) was a series of economic and political protests and demonstrations that took place during August, September, and October 2007 in Myanmar. The pro ...
the United Nations reported that food shipments out of
Mandalay Division to half a million people in the northern districts was being disrupted. This problem added the shortage of funding over its three-year operation and the poverty caused by the government's eradication of opium farming. Military co-operation with the food shipments was quickly resumed.
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Non-profit organisations based in Myanmar
World Food Programme