Maasai feel brunt of West's crisis in giving

Published on 03 November 2009

The smell of burning charcoal wafts from the little maasai homes made of stick and animal skins, where large families crowd around small pans taking the little food that is available. (..) The World Food Programme (WFP), which is principally funded by governments of UN member states, have only raised around a third of its projected total US$6.7 billion aid budget. Marcus Prior, WFP spokesman in Nairobi, said that across the developing world the agency has had to “reduce rations to hungry people, or in some instances entire programmes.”

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