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World Vision to distribute food to over
46,000 quake survivors in remote Pakistan villages 
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[JAN. 7, 2006]
PAKISTAN -- World Vision signed an agreement with the United
Nations World Food Program to distribute urgently needed food
supplies to an estimated 46,610 people in five high-altitude
villages in the Seron valley of the North West Frontier Province of
Pakistan.
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Food is now a priority in quake-affected zones, says the
U.N., which is allocating more than 50 percent of the total cargo it
transports to food, with about 40 percent allocated for shelter and
other items. The 4,412 metric tons of food -- including wheat flour,
vegetable oil, lentils and salt -- will be distributed in Jabbar
Panjul, Jaburi, Sachan, Manda Gucha and Jacha, where the bitter
Himalayan winter has set in. Distributions started Nov. 30
and will continue until April 2006.
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