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Kosovo Bread Program
Rehabilitation &
Emergency Work in Serbia and Montenegro
(a joint UN/WJFB project)
In the early months of 1999, NATO
launched air strikes targeted against the Government of President Slobodan
Milosevic. The fighting between Serbian government forces and the Kosovo
Liberation Army forced tens of thousands of refugees to flee from their
homes. More and more Kosovars escaped war as refugees into
neighbouring Albania and Macedonia. Almost a million Kosovars were displaced
and have become refugees. At this moment, the United Nations has expressed a
state of emergency in the Disaster Relief Rehabilitation and Resettlement (DRRR)
of the planned returning Kosovar Refugees into Kosovo. To provide food for
the refugees is one of the immediate needs for the DRRR.
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In July, World Job and Food Bank Inc.
(WJFB) signed a joint agreement with United Nation World Food Program (WFP)
and Zumrut Company, a Turkish company, for The Production and Delivery of
Bread to about 100,000 returning refugees and war-affected persons in
Kosovo. The strategy in Kosovo is to produce bread for the most vulnerable
groups by using local bakeries. Rehabilitation and
upgrading of the existing infrastructure of bakeries in Kosovo is also part
of this relief program. |
In the agreement, World Job and Food Bank is responsible for providing
the cost for production and delivery of the bread, while World Food
Program and Zumrut company are responsible for the supplies, production
and delivery of the bread and Sisters of Mother Theresa for the actual
distribution of bread to the people. From late July till early
September, 3,140,069 loaves of bread were produced and distributed to
refugees in the cities of Mitrovicha, Pristina and Gjakova through different
bakers. This project has created jobs for more than 65 bakers and their
workers. 400 people have been involved in the implementing of this bread
project. More than 150,000 people have benefited for a varying period of
30-60 days. |
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Please see the
chart of the productions and
distributions of the bread.
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