WFP has received less than 30% of the funding it requires in order to maintain vital food and nutrition activities to displaced families and can no longer maintain its assistance. In order to make the increasingly limited quantities of food last longer, WFP will be required to reduce rations to 50% of the planned May basket. This means that rather than receiving 2,100 kcal per person per day – which is the minimum amount of food required for a healthy life – families will receive only some 1,050 kcal per person per day. Before September, WFP will have to suspend activities entirely, including nutrition support to 50,000 children under 5 years of age.
Thus far, the regular and far-reaching assistance provided by the Government and people of Yemen and WFP has contributed to stabilizing the levels of acute malnutrition and mortality among the IDP population, particularly in the camps. However, the required ration cuts will reverse this progress and lead to a humanitarian catastrophe. As families are no longer able to meet their basic food requirements, cases of malnutrition and rates of mortality will increase. Moreover, when families will be deprived of the food support they require to survive, they will be forced to move once more in search of assistance.
http://www.examiner.com/x-16819-Global-Hunger-Examiner~y2010m4d27-World-Food-Programme-appeals-for-support-to-stop-hunger-crisis-in-Yemen
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