US provides assistance

Kathmandu, September 18: The United States has pledged US$750,000 to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to support exiled Bhutanese in Nepal.

A press release issued by the American Centre in Kathmandu on Monday said, "The US State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) provided the funds as part of a recent US$11.5 million donation to the
WFP."

WFP Executive Director, James Morris, said in response to the US offer that there would now be sufficient funding for nine refugee operations in Africa and a further three in Asia – until the end of this year.
 
WFP provide ration to over 105,000 exiled Bhutanese languishing in seven camps administered by the UNHCR since early 1990s. Bhutan News Service