U.S. Gives $8.5 Million in Food Aid to Philippines

Manila Mail, Posted: Oct 29, 2009

MANILA—The United States announced this week that it is giving $8.5 million in food aid to the Philippines to help it recover from back-to-back storms that killed more than 900 people. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, calling on President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, said the aid, consisting of 7,000 metric tons of rice and 680MT of dry milk, could feed nearly half of a million people for two months, officials said.

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