From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/24/2005 3:16 AM
Food aid to Chechnya and Dagestan
17.08.2005 - 00:32:33
The Danish Refugee Council is continuing food aid distribution funded by the European Union...
Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is continuing food aid distribution to the population of Chechnya and IDPs living in Dagestan.
The program is funded by the European Union through its Humanitarian Aid Department (ECHO).
Over 110,000 people, living in Vedeno, Groznenskiy Rural, Gudermes, Kurchaloy, Nozhay-Yurt, Urus-Martan and Shali districts, will receive food aid and around 5,000 people in Dagestan, residing in Kizlyar, Nogayskiy, Tarumovskiy and Khasav-Yurt districts.
Only the most vulnerable groups of the population are in beneficiary lists.
Aid beneficiaries in Chechnya are poor and very poor families with low income and high expenditures.
In Dagestan these are people who fled Chechnya after September 1999, and have not settled permanently in Dagestan.
Criteria for inclusion into DRC/ECHO food aid beneficiary lists are presented at DRC Information Centers located ...
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