U.N.: Food Operations in Iraq at Risk

"ROME (AP) - The U.N. World Food Program warned on Wednesday that its emergency operations in Iraq, which feed about 3 million people, were at risk because donors have only come up with 44 percent of the necessary money.

The Rome-based agency is aiming to provide 73,700 tons of food to 1.7 million extremely poor primary school children, 220,000 malnourished children and their families, 350,000 pregnant and nursing women, and more than 6,000 tuberculosis patients this year.

But the $66 million operation is at risk because it has only received $29 million from donors, the agency said.

"We provide food to those who cannot support themselves - children, women and the chronically sick," said Calum Gardner, WFP's country director for Iraq. "If we don't get more funding soon, we will no longer be able to assist them.""
MyWay

Compassionate aren't they?