Tajikistan, WFP Food without borders

With tens of thousands of people in need of food assistance in the Kyrgyztan crisis in July, WFP logistics staff in Tajikistan sent 650 metric tonnes of wheat flour from their warehouses across the border and through neighboring Uzbekistan to the epicenter of the crisis, the southern Kyrgyzs city of Osh. Nearly 50 trucks were required to move the wheat flour, and special allowances for this food loan were granted by the Government of Tajikistan and the donor of the wheat flour, the Russian Federation. In the coming weeks, the logistics staff will also send pulses across the borders.