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WFP Extends Emergency Food Operation in Ethiopia as Food Shortages
Persist Source: World Food Programme Press Release

ADDIS ABABA - The United Nations World Food Programme today urgently
appealed for US$205 million to provide relief food to millions of
drought-affected Ethiopians for a further year.

Under its extended operation, the Agency will require 480,000 metric
tons of food aid to cover the needs of 4.6 million people until March 2004 -
and avoid a potential break in food supplies in August.

WFP has been scaling up its relief distributions and feeding 4.4
million people since last year, when inadequate and poorly dispersed rain
greatly reduced Ethiopia's food production bringing the very real risk of
large-scale starvation.

In total, up to 11.3 million rural Ethiopians currently rely on a
continued flow of international relief assistance for survival. Those not covered
by the WFP emergency operation will receive food aid through donations to
the Ethiopian Government's Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Commission
(DPPC) and to non-governmental organisations (NGOs).

"As we inch closer to July and the start of the 'hungry season', it is
crucial that food aid reaches farmers and their families who are set to
exhaust their food reserves," said Georgia Shaver, WFP Country
Representative in Ethiopia. "These people's survival will hinge on food
aid arriving not only quickly, but in sufficient quantities."

So far, donors have provided more than 70 percent of the total 1.4
million tonnes of food aid that Ethiopia requires for 2003. But, without the
300,000 tonnes still needed to feed drought-affected farmers for the remainder
of the year, WFP fears there will be a break in supplies in August.

Over 130,000 tonnes of food aid were dispatched for 10 million
Ethiopians in March, but the risk of food stocks running out within a few months saw
the monthly cereal ration cut from the normal 15 kilogrammes per person to
12.5 kg.

While the stretching of available food stocks allows more people to be
reached, the reduction in ration size can lead to unacceptably low
levels of family food supplies.

WFP is also extremely concerned about the insufficient availability of
nutritious fortified blended foods to assist malnourished children and
mothers. To date, Ethiopia has received little more than 50 percent of
the almost 128,000 tonnes of blended food stipulated for programmes run by
WFP, DPPC and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in 2003.

Concerns about food shortages in Ethiopia began to emerge in the middle
of last year, after a prolonged dry spell between the premature end of the
short belg rains in April and the four-six week delay in the start of
the main meher crop season rains. As a result, in 2002, cereal and pulse
production dropped 25 percent from the previous year's level.

The food situation in Ethiopia continues to be regularly monitored.
WFP, together with the Government, UN agencies and NGO staff, is currently
involved in assessing the conditions of hungry people in four regions.
Eight teams are verifying whether a portion of some three million people, who
have been closely monitored for months, now require immediate food
assistance.

Surveys have recently indicated a poor to serious nutritional situation
in parts of Afar, Tigray and the Southern Nations, Nationalities and
People Region (SNNPR).

"We are very grateful to donors for their positive response to
Ethiopia's drought appeal, which has saved the lives of thousands of people.
However, we've not seen the end of the crisis, and more help over the months
ahead will mean the difference between life and death," said Shaver.

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WORDS OF LOVE FROM BHAGAVAN

In fact, you find only love and love and love in yourself. All origins
have its seed in Love. When once you know the nature of love you will have
full faith in the universe. First have faith in yourself. Strengthen this
faith in yourself. Where there is faith, there is love. Where there is love,
there is truth. Where there is truth there is God. Where there is truth,
there will be peace, Peace does not exist separately in this world. Peace is
in you, truth is in you, Love is in you and the whole world is in you.

BHAGAVAN SRI SATHYA SAI BABA

WORDS OF SERVICE FROM BHAGAVAN

All are brothers and sisters. It is enough if you develop this sort of
relationship. It is enough if you render this kind of service. No
penance or pilgrimage is required. No knowledge no repetition of God's name
either. To cross across this ocean of life, the service is essential and enough.
What is beyond this bliss. Any amount of money will not give you this bliss.
Money will not give happiness and bliss. Money comes and goes, but
morality comes and grows. Many people have taken birth. Many earned money. But
what happened to them. Did anyone carry a single naya paise with him. It is
not possible to take with you when you go away from this earth. If man
could take sand along with him as he leaves the world, there will be no sand
at all. What we carry back with us are only Good and Bad deeds. We should
earn a good name.

BHAGAVAN SRI SATHYA SAI BABA

SAI RAM

THE FAMOUS WORDS OF BHAGAVAN SRI SATHYA SAI BABA

Serve the poor with love. That alone can redeem you. Service to the
poor is service to God. Sacrifice your life for the cause of the poor. Service
to the poor is My only motto. I have no other desires. I am prepared to
sacrifice even My life to serve the poor. Do atleast one thousandth
part of what Swami is doing. Of what use is human life if it is not spent in
the service of the poor?

BHAGAVAN SRI SATHYA SAI BABA

Jai Sai Ram

HELPING SWAMI’S MISSION

Eventhough the Sathya Sai Organization does not entertain any
collection of money from its members and public by canvassing and advertising. It is
worth that at least a word of swami’s projects should be known to public so
any good soul can think of donating any money to those projects. Swami’s
projects need wide support from the global community. Help ever Hurt
Never.

Jai Sai Ram.

SOME OF BHAGAVAN SRI SATHYA SAI BABA’S MAJOR PROJECTS

Avathars are engaged in selfless service (seva); that is why Avathars happen. Offering service to mankind pleases Avathars. ... I am active and busy twenty-four hours a day. ... I have never craved a minute's rest or sleep or relief.
--Sathya Sai Baba, in Sathya Sai Speaks X, Chap. 19, 123; VII, Chap. 59, 350; VI, Chap. 58, 288 (old edition)

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