News: The World Food Programme Aids Iraqis

Monsters and Critics has reported that the United Nations World Food Programme is starting a program for emergency food assistance for internally displaced Iraqis and Iraqi refugees in Syria.

A recent UN assessment, conducted in collaboration with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, revealed that about a third of Iraqi respondents living in Syria said they skipped one meal a day to feed their children, while 60 per cent said they were buying less expensive foods, often less nutritious, to cope with rising prices.

The World Food Programme website has more information on its efforts in Iraq.