Bangladesh Food Project Ends
In the months of June, July and August, Dorcas Aid International (DAI) provided food to more than 16,000 food insecure people the impoverished area of Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh.
Tens of thousands of people in the area were suffering from food insecurity having lost their harvest to rats earlier this year. The food assistance helped them survive until the next harvest (now).
The bamboo - that the rats eat - flowers every 50 years. The seeds of the flower are high in protein and, when the rats eat them, they breed several times more than normal. This results is an enourmous increase in the number of the ratpopulation. The rats eat the bamboo seeds whereafter they move over into people's fields and eat their crops.
The people hit are poor indigenous Christian and Buddhist tribes living in the mountains close to the borders of India and Burma.
The worldwide rise in food-prices has major consequences for every-day life in Bangladesh:
-"Over four million people in the country may have been pushed back in poverty because of the food crisis," said World Bank Lead Economist, Vinaya Swaroop, August 26 at a discussion with journalists on the impacts of the food crisis in Bangladesh.
Through DAI's local implementing partner organisation, Koinonia, the support of DAI and Sign of Hope (Germany) - and your support - 16,290 persons (3,300 families) received food relief during the mentioned three months. Click here to read a human interest story!
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