Awwal 11, 1432 / April 15, 2011, SPA -- Food aid for millions of Afghans is endangered due to a lack of international donations, the World Food Programme (WFP) said Friday, according to dpa. The UN agency stated that it lacks 257 million dollars for its mission of providing food to 7.3 million Afghans. That represents half of its Afghan aid budget, meaning the programme could collapse within just a few weeks. Afghanistan Director Louis Imbleau made a plea for more budgetary assistance, noting that supplies of wheat were particularly short. He added that millions of schoolchildren would be affected if the WFP's school meal programme had to be curtailed.
