UN APPEALS

UN appeals for more helicopters

ISLAMABAD: The Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme , Josette Sheeran, on Monday announced that the WFP is doubling its own helicopter fleet from five to ten to ensure uninterrupted supply of food to flood-hit people of Pakistan.
Sheeran appealed to the world community to provide more helicopters for the purpose.
According to a statement issued by the WFP, Sheeran is visiting Pakistan on Aug 31 to review the program's relief activities.

Besides traveling to the flood hit areas she will also hold meetings with the chiefs of other UN organisations involved in the relief efforts.
Sheeran said that the devastating flood had cut off many areas but there were still several regions which were accessible via roads.
She said the WFP was finding it hard to provide food to eight lac people stuck in remote areas. "Helicopters were the only way to reach them and we were short of them,"