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In Numbers 414.59 mt of food assistance distributed* USD 3.8 m cash-based transfers made* USD 87.2 m six months (November 2023- April 2024) net funding requirements, representing 76 percent of total 257,677 people assisted* in OCTOBER 2023 *Preliminary figures Operational Updates In October, WFP opened a new community kitchen in the municipality of Turbo, Antioquia to attend 1,500 migrants in transit per day. The operation will continue for three months. WFP started to support an Action Against Hunger (ACH) project aimed at improving and preventing undernutrition in La Guajira. WFP will deliver in-kind food baskets to families where ACH detects children with severe and/or acute malnutrition status. WFP assisted 257,677 vulnerable Colombians and migrants with various interventions: around 129,000 migrants with the intention to settle, Colombian returnees and host communities received assistance in 14 departments. Nearly 31,000 in-transit migrants and Colombian returnees received hot meals; over 15,000 received ready-to-eat food rations in eight departments. Within the framework of a socioeconomic integration programme, 1,100 migrants, returnees, and host communities have taken part in capacitystrengthening activities aimed at generating employability or creating microenterprises. WFP reached over 91.795 children through the National School Feeding Programme this month, of those, 68.549 were Colombian and 23.246 were migrant children. The number of beneficiaries increased since the programme now covers all schools in Maicao municipality. WFP assisted over 20,000 people affected by conflict and climate-related disasters this month in six departments. About 37 percent of the beneficiaries were either Indigenous or from Afro-descendant communities. About 10,000 small-scale farmers were assisted through early recovery and capacity-strengthening activities in nine departments. Furthermore, around 700 people received Climate Change adaptation training in Nariño. WFP reached more than 2,100 people to prevent malnutrition in the departments of La Guajira and Atlántico, almost 73 percent of whom were children and pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls.
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