The U.N.'s Terrible Dilemma: Who Gets To Eat?
Funding shortages and continuing conflicts are forcing the U.N.'s World Food Programme to make tough decisions about who gets rations — and how big they are.
The U.N. is facing a terrible dilemma.
"Basically, when we haven't got enough money, we have to decide who's not going to get food," says Peter Smerdon, a spokesman for the U.N.'s World Food Programme in East Africa.
And even though their budget is at a record high, it's not enough to keep up with the number of refugees and people in other crisis situations who need emergency food aid. Continuing conflicts in countries like Syria and Yemen and other last year. It received a total of $6.8 billion from countries, organizations and private donors when it needed $9.1 billion to do its job.
