In flood-ravaged Pakistan, "women and children are facing a dangerous downwards spiral of hunger and malnutrition," says Josette Sheeran, the director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP). Sheeran warns, "We need to scale-up now and we need to scale-up quickly.”
The World Food Programme is calling upon the international community to support a 600 million dollar food aid operation for Pakistan. WFP says the funds are needed to provide aid through July 2011 to an average of 6 million Pakistanis per month. So far, WFP has collected 103 million from donors.
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