World Food Programme Fighting Hunger Worldwide

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 Some 18,000 internally displaced people live in the Al Mazraq camp in Hajja Governorate of northwestern Yemen. They depend on food aid.

Al Mazraq 2 A quarter million civilians have been displaced by the conflict in northern Yemen. WFP has now reached 215,000 with food assistance.

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The Al Mazraq camp is located in a harsh area of Northern Yemen plagued by dust storms.

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 People in Al Mazraq have no other source of food other than international aid.

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 Among the commodities distributed by WFP are ready to eat food such as High Energy Biscuits.

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Of the 250,000 civilians displaced by the conflict in northern Yemen, about 50,000 are under the age of five.

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 More than half of all children under age five are chronically malnourished - 2.6 million children (according to UNICEF State of the World’s Children). And more than 1 in 10 suffers from acute malnourishment.

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WFP continues to face a serious funding shortfall in all of its Yemen programmes which are 75% under-resourced for the first six months of 2010.