World Vision to Direct Armenian Food Relief
Monrovia-based World Vision has been selected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to administer a food relief program worth $7.5 million in the republic of Armenia, it was announced Thursday.
The relief aid includes $5.2 million of powdered milk, beans and vegetable oil earmarked for 300,000 Armenians suffering from severe food and energy shortages, including refugees from the war with neighboring Azerbaijan. Another $2.3 million will cover the costs of transporting, distributing and monitoring the 6,000 metric tons of food over the next several months, said World Vision President Robert Seiple.
An estimated 1.9 million people of a total population of 3.3 million are in need there this winter, Seiple said.
“Armenia is extremely vulnerable,” he said. “Rich and poor alike suffer when heat and electricity are turned off and when food supplies are limited.”
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