Additionally, Japan donated $1 million to support food security for people affected by Hurricane Melissa.
MIAMI, United States. – The Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) donated 24,600 tons of rice to Cuba, a shipment that arrives channeled by the World Food Program (WFP) and that, according to the United Nations on the Islandwill focus on people in vulnerable situations and pregnant women, in the midst of the food crisis that the country is going through.
According to the publication of the United Nations System in Cuba, “50% of the total is currently unloaded in the port of Santiago de Cuba”, which will strengthen food security in the eastern provinces.
In that same text, the UN in Cuba stated that rice “will allow the quotas delivered by the World Food Program to the prioritized population in the eastern provinces to be doubled for five months.”
The second half of the donation will enter through Havana for later distribution in the rest of the country. According to the United Nations in Cuba, it is “intended to double deliveries to vulnerable and pregnant people in the remaining provinces of the country,” under a bimonthly scheme until completing one year.
The EFE news agency reported Furthermore, separately, the WFP announced “a Japanese donation of 1 million dollars” to support food security for the benefit of 190,000 people in the East affected by Melissa, with an emergency ration that includes “1.5 kilograms of rice, 0.9 kg of grains and 1 liter of oil.”
