The United States Government has donated $32.5 million to the World Food Programme (WFP) to provide food assistance and nutrition support to internally displaced persons across conflict-affected areas in Nigeria.
With the donation, the WFP will provide food and nutrition assistance to 764,205 beneficiaries, including complementary nutrition top-ups for 41,569 pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls, and 43,235 children through electronic food vouchers across North-East and North-West Nigeria.
The announcement was made in a statement posted on the website of the U.S. mission in Nigeria yesterday.
The support, according to the embassy, is targeted at saving lives and alleviating the suffering of vulnerable groups, particularly women and children.
The WFP had recently warned that it might be forced to suspend all emergency food and nutrition assistance for 1.3 million people in North-East Nigeria by the end of July due to a severe funding shortfall.
WFP’s Regional Director for West and Central Africa, Margot van der Velden, said the agency urgently required $130 million to continue delivering emergency food and nutrition support over the next six months.
