CERF allocates nearly $2 million for winter emergency assistance in Kyrgyzstan.

Refugee women in Kyrgyzstan [Photo: IRIN]

11 December 2008: Soaring food and fuel prices have limited people's ability to purchase basic food and decreased their food security. In response, CERF has allocated nearly $2 million to four UN agencies to help vulnerable people during upcoming winter in Kyrgyzstan.

The World Food Programme (WFP) is helping nearly 600,000 people receive urgent food supplies over the winter months using $1.3 million from CERF. The UN High Comissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has received $110,000 from CERF to provide food rations to 1,000 asylum seekers and refugees in Kyrgyzstan. 

 

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is utilizing a $400,000 CERF grant to provide support to 4,500 farmers in Kyrgyzstan who require feed for the animals they rely on for their livelihoods.  A CERF grant of $109,000 is allowing the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) to house over 400 homeless children in shelters while also improving housing conditions.

[Last Update: 7 January 2009]