The Gambia

 Country Director Vitoria Ginja shows the audience commodities for blanket supplementary feeding.  WFP/Sarah Yehouenou

WFP launches Blanket Supplementary Feeding Programme in The Gambia

At Besse in the Foni Berefet District, West Coast Region, WFP and partners launched the first Supplementary Feeding Programme to prevent acute malnutrition in children under the age of five.

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Overview

The Gambia has a predominantly subsistence agrarian economy and remains a least developed and low-income, food-deficit country, with a total population of 1.7 million. It is ranked 151st out of 169 countries in the 2010 United Nations Human Development Index, with a per capita GDP of US$329 (2008) and has 63 percent of the population living below the poverty line. 

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Country at a glance 2012
Planned Beneficiaries99,486
Beneficiary needs (mt)3,104
Beneficiary needs ($US)3,207,473
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