In line with the celebration of Ramadan on August, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) will distribute ten tons of pressed dates to 60, 000 vulnerable and food-insecure persons in the conflict affected provinces ofCentral Mindanao. The said pressed dates where donated by the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia to WFP-Philippines and also to Philippine Red Cross.
(Left to Right: Senator Richard Gordon, Philippine Red Cross Chairman; Stephen Anderson, World Food Programme Country Director and Representative; Fahad Al-Munif, Director from the Ministry of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Bai Omera Dianalan-Lucman, National Commission on Muslim Filipinos Secretary; and His Excellency Abdullah Ibrahim Al-Hassan, Ambassador of the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in the Philippines)
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