U.S. WILL DONATE FOOD TO HONDURAS

December 27, 2001

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that it will donate 7,560 metric tons of U.S. agricultural commodities to Catholic Relief Services (CRS) for use in Honduras under the Global Food for Education (GFE) program. CRS, a private voluntary organization, will use the commodities to implement a school feeding program in 50 schools in the Lempira region. The donation will include approximately 7,400 metric tons of wheat, 20 tons of vegetable oil, 90 tons of corn-soy blend and 50 tons of nonfat dry milk, USDA said.

Lists of the eligible counties are at http://www.usda.gov/news/releases/2001/12/0273.htm for Texas and http://www.usda.gov/news/releases/2001/12/0271.htm for Idaho.