Syria: WFP Reach Families with Food in Darayya

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) today announced it delivered food for the first time since 2012 to the besieged town of Darayya, a suburb of Damascus, as part of a joint U.N. and Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) convoy.

    WFP delivered a family ration - enough to feed 2,400 people for one month - and enough wheat flour in bags to feed the entire population of 4,000 people for a month. The nine-truck convoy also carried medical supplies and health items late on Thursday to the people of Darayya. WFP food boxes included rice, lentils, chickpeas, beans, bulgur, oil, salt and sugar.

    According to a press release issued by WFP, more convoys are planned to all of the 19 besieged locations in Syria as part of the plan for June, following the Government of Syria’s approval to reach all these locations.

    Elsewhere, WFP reported that a series of airdrops over the besieged town of Deir Ezzor have delivered a month’s supply of food for the 100,000 people trapped inside the city. It plans to continue the flights in the next few weeks to deliver another monthly ration.

    In total, during the first few days of June, WFP has already provided life-saving food assistance to more than 1.4 million people across Syria as part of the organization’s monthly plan to reach four million displaced and vulnerable people.

    In addition, the agency provides assistance - mostly cash-based transfers through "e-cards" - to around 1.5 million Syrian refugees living in the neighboring countries of Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon Iraq and Egypt.

Source ; QNA