UN WFP assists children in S Philippine conflict zones

Published on 18 January 2011

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has offered help for at least 40,000 children displaced from previous fighting areas between state security forces and Muslim separatist rebels in the southern Philippines, program officer Bernard Mrewa said Monday. The recipients of the emergency feeding were all enrolled in more than 300 primary schools in the troubled southern province of Maguindanao.

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