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In Numbers
725,000 refugee arrivals since August 2017.
14,000 refugee arrivals since January 2018.
During October: 884,564 refugees received General Food Assistance (GFA)
• 673,800 refugees through in-kind GFA.
• 210,764 refugees through E-vouchers.
Highlights
• WFP Executive Director, David Beasley visited Cox’s Bazar with the Minister of Development Cooperation of Denmark, Ulla Tornaes, to understand the ongoing WFP response to the refugee crisis. Additional funding amounting to USD 4.6 million was confirmed for WFP by the Minister.
• WFP urgently needs USD 22 million to meet basic food needs for refugees for the next 6 months.
WFP Response
Life-saving Food and Nutrition Assistance
• During October, WFP assisted 673,800 refugees through GFA across 20 distribution points including the newly constructed site in camp 20. A new distribution site is under construction at Camp 4 extension.
• In 2019, WFP plans to open additional retail outlets to scale up food assistance through evouchers.
Construction work for two new outlets in Mainnerghona and camp D5 is ongoing. During October, 210,764 refugees were assisted through e-vouchers, with a diverse food basket comprising of 18 different items including fresh vegetables, spices, dried fish, eggs, pulses, and rice.
• During October, WFP assisted 196,800 children under five years and 41,008 pregnant and breastfeeding women under malnutrition prevention and treatment programme across 31 nutrition centres in the camps and 86 in the host community. Additionally, Ready-to Use Supplementary Food (RUSF) was distributed for treatment in all sites.