Loading trucks with WFP food for the quake-stricken town of Pedernales in Ecuador. Photo: WFP Media
ECUADOR–(ENEWSPF)–19 April 2016 – The United Nations food relief agency has sent a convoy to assist some 8,000 people severely affected by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit the coast of Ecuador, leaving more than 400 people dead and thousands more in desperate need of humanitarian aid.
At the request of Ecuador’s Government, the World Food Programme (
