The United Nations has begun a mammoth effort to feed up to 2 million survivors of the earthquake-tsunami disaster for six months, focusing particularly on pregnant women, nursing mothers and young children, a senior official said Saturday. The operation to feed survivors around the region for six months will likely cost US$180 million (¤136 million), World Food Program Executive Director James Morris said. "Many of the places where we work are remote, detached and their infrastructure has been dramatically compromised," Morris said Saturday, a day after he visited Indonesia's shattered Aceh province with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. "We will be distributing food ... by trucks, by barges, by ships, by helicopters, by big planes." Morris said he was staggered by the scale of the disaster.
