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UN Campaign To Raise Money For Help Nepal
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
March 11, 2010: the UN has appealed to back its campaign for more than $120 million to help 3.4 million people across Nepal in need of life-saving food aid. Nearly half of the country’s districts are short of food and the aid workers estimate that nearly 2.5 million people face extreme food insecurity, mainly in the Mid-and Far-Western Hill and Mountain Regions of western Nepal according to the UN News Center.
According to a press release issued by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), rural Nepalis spend over 70 per cent of their household budgets on food and depend on subsistence agriculture. OCHA has said that if funding for agriculture had been sufficient, the current food crisis could have been alleviated.
Seven UN organizations and three non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are taking part in the appeal launched on March 10, 2010. The fund sought is $123.5 million for improving food security, nutrition, strengthening disaster preparedness and assisting refugees including the nearly 90,000 Bhutanese refugees residing in Nepal. These refugees had fled ethnic tensions in their home country in the early 1990s and are sheltering in seven camps in eastern Nepal.
