WFP,　ペルーの大地震で資金援助を要請 (和文要約、本文は英文)

8月16日(日本時間)にペルーで発生した大地震の被災者に対し、WFPは地震発生から12時間後に緊急支援を開始。ペルーに備蓄されていた食糧や、隣国エクアドルの備蓄倉庫から緊急空輸した高タンパク質ビスケット９トンなどを含め、すでに500トン以上の食糧を被災者に配給した。
　WFPは今後9ヶ月の間、8万人を対象に緊急支援事業を行う予定。特に2歳以下の子ども、女性、高齢者などの弱者に対しては、栄養状態が悪化しないよう重点的に支援を行っていく。また、インフラの復旧工事を行う際には工事現場で働く人たちに対して食糧を配給するなどし、復興作業も後押ししていく予定である。
　この緊急支援事業に必要な資金は610万米ドル。うち、200万ドルは国連中央緊急対応基金（CERF)から拠出を受けるが、残りの400万ドル余りは各国政府や企業、個人からの支援金が頼みの綱となるため、WFPは国際社会に支援を呼びかけている。



WFP URGENTLY APPEALS FOR FUNDS AS AID EFFORTS IN PERU QUAKE ZONE INTENSIFY
LIMA –The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today appealed to international donors for urgent funding to support its operation to provide food assistance for nine months to 80,000 people worst affected by last week’s earthquake in Peru.
WFP’s emergency operation will require a total of US$6.1 million. While about US$2 million of this will come from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund, WFP will be relying on donors for the remainder.
“For us to be successful, we will have to count on the full support of the international community and we appeal to donors to respond as quickly as possible,” said WFP Country Director Guy Gauvreau. “We are relying on donors’ generosity. This crisis may quickly disappear from the front pages of the newspapers, but the tens of thousands of people affected by this catastrophe will live with the effects for many months to come.”
To date, WFP has provided over 500 metric tons of mainly ready-to-eat food to the worst affected, including nine tons of high protein biscuits airlifted from the agency’s sub-regional emergency logistics hub in neighbouring Ecuador. The aircraft was provided by the Government of Ecuador.
WFP’s efforts will focus on preventing the deterioration of the nutritional condition of those affected, particularly children aged six to 24 months, women and other high-risk groups such as the elderly.
The operation will also support reconstruction efforts through Food-For-Work programmes and help to prevent further deterioration in the livelihoods of affected families, many of whom have lost almost everything.
Gauvreau said that despite earlier scattered scenes of chaos in the worst-affected provinces of Pisco and Ica, the situation appeared to be stabilizing. At the same time, he said road conditions while not perfect, were improving and increasing amounts of supplies were arriving in the quake zone.