Films from North Korea

As many as 400,000 children in North Korea are severely malnourished and in desperate need of help. So far, Mission East has distributed food aid to around 27,000 children, but the needs are enormous. Managing Director Kim Hartzner has recorded these video clips in the North Korean provinces of North Pyongang and Kangwon.

Mission East is the only Danish relief organization that has been given access to distribute food aid in North Korea. We have been invited to do so by the North Korean government, in co-operation with a Finnish partner organization.

Mission East is responsible for the monitoring of the distribution of the aid, in order to ensure that it reaches the children that are in most need.

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Among other things the children in the orphanage in Wanson City in Kangwon Province of North Korea eat cakes of maize from Mission East and TopNutri, which is added to the rice, and which contains a complete daily ration of all necessary proteins, vitamins and minerals. From February to June 2011 the children’s daily rations where reduced to a sixth of their normal rations, which has affected many of the children who are now chronically malnourished.

403 children live in the orphanage which is meant for orphans under the age of five.

Overall it is estimated that as many as 400,000 children in North Korea are severely malnourished and in need of emergency food aid. According to the UN, right now millions of North Koreans are in need of outside assistance, with the country unable to feed its population. The situation has worsened following a string of natural disasters during the past year and a half.

Please read the report UN report from November 2011 here: http://www.wfp.org/content/dpr-korea-faowfp-crop-and-food-security-assessment-november-2011

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