The new funds, from a "generous response" of donors, will go for food in more than 60 countries that have been hardest hit by the food crisis, Sheeran told a U.N. food summit."We have mobilized our 10,000 employees and every dollar and euro given to us, to reach as many hungry people as we can at this critical time," Sheeran said in a written statement.
Sheeran told the summit that she had recently returned from Myanmar where "there was food in the market" but that many people, left hungry by the cyclone, did not have the money to buy rice.
Sheeran said WFP was purchasing 80 percent of the food for distribution in the local countries.
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