Private Cars Get U.N. Food to Albanians
The first supplies of United Nations food for Albania’s poor and needy were handed out Saturday and ferried across the volatile Balkan country in a flotilla of small private cars.
Without waiting for a multinational security force to provide armed escorts, the U.N. World Food Program passed out about 38 tons of flour, beans and vegetable oil at the port of Durres, 25 miles west of Tirana.
Vans and cars from 22 orphanages, hospitals and homes for the elderly and handicapped arrived to pick up the food.
Larger convoys escorted by troops will be sent Thursday, an Italian military spokesman said.
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