CERF allocates $4 million for food security support for vulnerable people in Guinea

A Guinean child getting immunized [Photo: UNICEF]

14 July 2008: Sixteen percent of households in Guinea are suffering from food insecurity. These households devote more than half of their resources to purchase food; the majority of them are agricultural and earn their income from the sale of their crops. Furthermore, increased food prices have had a negative impact on Guineans’ ability to purchase staple foods. 

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is using CERF funds to prevent malnutrition among vulnerable groups by treating over 15,000 children with severe acute malnutrition. It is ensuring an uninterrupted pipeline of therapeutic and supplementary foods to children in collaboration with WFP. Micronutrient supplements and essential drugs are also being supplied for the management of acute malnutrition.

The World Food Programme (WFP) is implementing an emergency food aid programme for over 70,000 food insecure people in the regions of Upper and Middle Guinea and Forest Guinea. The programme, in collaboration with other UN agencies, is providing monthly rice food-rations during July to September 2008 in the poorest areas of Guinea.  

[Last Update: 14 July 2007]

CERF in Guinea 2007

CERF in Guinea 2006