Burkina Faso - Food Aid/Food for Work for the Urban Poor, #1827-01/02

Lead Member: Emergency Relief & Development Overseas
Country: Burkina Faso
Implementing Partners: Eglise des Assemblies de Dieu d'Antenneville
Food/Inputs: 178 metric tonnes (mt) corn, 16 mt oil, & 2 mt beans
Budget: $101,239
Time Period: August 2004 - October 2005
The primary purpose of this project is to increase food security among the urban poor in Ouagadougou. The program targets the most vulnerable people in the vicinity of Eglise des Assemblies de Dieu d'Antenneville. Additional elements of the program include a food-for-work program for single mothers and providing food to orphans at the Jim Wilson Village of Hope. This project will target approximately 5,000 beneficiaries including people who generally have no means of support, individuals that are temporarily un-employed or refugees/returnees, orphaned children in the Children's Village and women in a food for work program who would otherwise have no way of providing for themselves or their children.



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