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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8419

13 March 2003
Contents Publication in full By article 28 / 37
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/humanitarian aid
Commission allocates EUR 8 million to displaced persons in Colombia

Brussels, 12/03/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has granted €8 million in humanitarian aid to Colombia. The funding is being channelled through ECHO (Humanitarian Aid Office). Most of this aid will go to providing food, bed sheets, cooking sets and hygiene products to around 200,000 people in the country who have been displaced by the conflict. The majority of these people are under the age of 18 and are indigenous people or Afro-Colombians, uprooted from a rural environment...

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