EU grants financial aid to WFP in Nepal

The European Union (EU) has provided financial assistance of Rs 340 million to the World Food Programme (WFP) in Nepal in bid to support its Remote Access Operation programme launched in the country following the April 25 earthquake. The WFP, Nepal, which has been delivering emergency food assistance and constructing shelters for the communities residing in rural mountainous region in the country following the quake, received the aid from EU on Tuesday, according to a press statement issued by WFP, Nepal. The aid is believed to be useful to the people in this region whom this humanitarian agency has been hiring as porter, guide and mule operators to ferry food and deliver other humanitarian supplies to the earthquake-affected parts of the country in the wake of current fuel crisis. More than 19,300 people were hired for this purpose and some 12,700 people in mountainous parts of the country were brought to the reach of road connectivity by constructing 890 kilo metres of spiral road under this Operation, it is shared. Pippa Bradford, WFP's Country Director for Nepal, in the press release, stated that the earthquake and shortage of supplies of essential commodities in the country following the disruption in the bordering points with India has posed a great threat to the public lives. Similarly, EU Ambassador to Nepal Rensje Teerink believed that this aid would contribute towards delivering humanitarian assistance to quake-hit persons in Nepal. RSS