{"id":194735,"date":"2011-08-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=194735"},"modified":"2019-03-12T16:52:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:52:16","slug":"auto-insert-194735","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-194735\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan donates 600 million yen for food aid to Palestine refugees – Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA – press release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Japan donates 600 million yen (US $7.7 million) for food aid to Palestine refugees<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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اليابان تتبرع بـ 7.7 مليون دولار أمريكي للمساعدات الغذائية للاجئين الفلسطينيين<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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17 August 2011
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The government of Japan has announced a donation of US$ 7.7 million (600 million Japanese yen) towards food aid as part of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA’s social safety-net programme for 2011 and 2012. The programme, aimed at alleviating poverty among Palestine refugees, provides food aid and cash subsidies to more than a quarter of a million impoverished people in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. The Japanese contribution will help Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA provide vulnerable refugees with food including wheat flour and pulses. Families benefiting from the social safety-net receive food packages every three months, including sugar, rice, oil and milk powder.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Commissioner-General, Filippo Grandi, welcomed the Japanese contribution, saying: “I would like to thank the government and people of Japan for this contribution especially this year when Japan was hit with the earthquake and tsunami.” He continued: “Food aid is one of two components of a programme targeting the neediest refugees.”<\/p><\/div>\n

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The agreement was signed today at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Baqa’a Elementary Co-Ed School in Baqa’a camp, Jordan, by Mr Grandi and the Japanese Ambassador to Jordan H.E. Junichi Kosuge.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Speaking at the ceremony, HE Mr. Kosuge said: “Japan has been and will continue to be proactively involved in assistance to the Palestinian people and making efforts towards peace in the region.” He continued: “Japan considers Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA as an important partner to realise our diplomatic principle of human security and to promote peace in the region.”<\/p>\n

Japan’s assistance to the Palestine refugees through Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA, which began in 1953, has amounted to approximately US$ 600 million, including this year’s food aid contribution. Japan has been providing food aid to Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA since 1967, and is among a number of donors that today regularly contribute to Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA’s social safety-net programme.
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For more information please contact:<\/p>\n

Anwar Abu Sakieneh
\nActing Public Information Officer
\nMobile: 0795671888<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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