00:00Unfortunately the World Food Programme is forced to make very dramatic reductions in the number
00:05of people that we are reaching because we simply do not have the levels of funding required.
00:10We had aspirations to be reaching up to 1.1 million people but because of a shortfall in funding
00:18we are particularly squeezed and this translates to reaching less people. We are short of the
00:26funding because of a whole range of different donors have not been able to meet our requirements.
00:32This includes the US but it's definitely not only the US. The situation in Myanmar continues to
00:39deteriorate. We estimate that there could be over 15 million people who are acutely food insecure.
00:47This is driven by conflict, this is caused by displacement, this is caused by economic hardship
00:54and these people desperately need support from WFP and the international community if we are
00:59going to meet their basic requirements. Countries such as Ukraine and Gaza and Sudan have a higher
01:07profile than Myanmar at the moment and so a lot of funding has gone towards those operations
01:14but when you look at the percentage of the population acutely hungry, very few of them have
01:21needs as great as Myanmar at present.
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