The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Nepal has received donations of USD 617,000 from Netherlands and USD 410,000 from Switzerland to support food supplies to Bhutanese refugees.
The sum will be used to feed over108, 000 Bhutanese refugees sheltering in seven camps in Jhapa and Morang district of eastern Nepal. WFP said these donations would secure enough food resources to feed all of the refugees for over one month.
Issuing a news release on Thursday, WFP said the donations were received in response to WFP’s continued efforts to raise desperately needed funds from the international community in order to provide monthly food rations to the refugees in 2007.
Under their current status of refugees is critical as they are restricted from engaging in economic activities outside the camps.
The release quoted Richard Ragan, WFP’s Country Representative in Nepal as saying that WFP was cutting rations to pressure refugees to consider 3rd country repatriation were completely inaccurate.
WFP has been providing essential food aid to the Bhutanese refugees since 1992 at the request of the government of Nepal and in close coordination with the UN refugee agency, UNHCR.
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