PHNOM PENH, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- Over 68,000 poor families of Cambodia have received emergency food assistance following the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Board of Directors' approval of the project last month, said an ADB press release here on Friday.
"This assistance is making a very real difference in the lives of Cambodia's most vulnerable, particularly its children," said ADB Country Director Arjun Goswami.
"Putting food on the tables of Cambodia's poorest families, just one month after the project's approval, is a commendable accomplishment by the government," he said, adding that food distribution has been supervised by independent NGO monitors.
One of the primary objectives of ADB's emergency food assistance is to help support Cambodia's efforts to ameliorate the food price inflation shock on the poorest and most vulnerable families in the seven provinces around the Tonle Sap Lake, and in three urban slums around Phnom Penh, said the release.
The project targeted the poorest 20 percent of poor families in 200 selected communes, it added.
The ADB, based in Manila, is dedicated to reducing poverty in the Asia and Pacific region through inclusive economic growth, environmentally sustainable growth, and regional integration.
Established in 1966, the ADB is owned by 67 members, 48 from the region. In 2007, it approved 10.1 billion U.S. dollars of loans, 673 million dollars of grant projects, and technical assistance amounting to 243 million dollars, according to the release.
"This assistance is making a very real difference in the lives of Cambodia's most vulnerable, particularly its children," said ADB Country Director Arjun Goswami.
"Putting food on the tables of Cambodia's poorest families, just one month after the project's approval, is a commendable accomplishment by the government," he said, adding that food distribution has been supervised by independent NGO monitors.
One of the primary objectives of ADB's emergency food assistance is to help support Cambodia's efforts to ameliorate the food price inflation shock on the poorest and most vulnerable families in the seven provinces around the Tonle Sap Lake, and in three urban slums around Phnom Penh, said the release.
The project targeted the poorest 20 percent of poor families in 200 selected communes, it added.
The ADB, based in Manila, is dedicated to reducing poverty in the Asia and Pacific region through inclusive economic growth, environmentally sustainable growth, and regional integration.
Established in 1966, the ADB is owned by 67 members, 48 from the region. In 2007, it approved 10.1 billion U.S. dollars of loans, 673 million dollars of grant projects, and technical assistance amounting to 243 million dollars, according to the release.
Thanks to the ADB and thanks to NGO for monitoring.
ReplyDeleteWithout NGO monitoring, 50% of all these foods CPP people
will sell to private company.
the present cambodian gov't isn't so bad, however, they just need to do more reforms in the social services like being transparent, being responsible to the people they sworn to serve, and officials must take their official position and responsibility seriously and not to ignore injustice and act in according to laws to help find justice, liberty and fair economic development for the khmer people of all walks of life. god bless cambodia.
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ReplyDeleteYour opinion works only here in growing Western Nation but it is not going to work in country like Cambodia. I hope you one day visit Cambodia, you see them yourself. Have you heard that car driver hit motocyclist and driver stepped out of the car and beat the hell out of motocyclist..Have you seen mother fed her baby sitting in front of the hotel. If you are witness to most of situation in Cambodia, then you will be mad like hell the gorvernment of Cambodia. Have you seen the high ranking officer sheild up with waitress while peeing into the rever. When you witness all of that you may think about letting go to war.