The first food convoy for 2009 - dispatched by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in cooperation with the Government delivered mixed food commodities to the Vanni region, the WFP announced yesterday (09).
It said the convoy, comprising 57 trucks and seven light vehicles, delivered 811 metric tons of food (enough to feed nearly 230,000 persons for a week) to Puthukkudiyiruppu. This was the tenth convoy to the region since UN humanitarian convoys began delivering food in October 2008.