Throughout 2024, the UN World Food Programme, in partnership with the Lviv Agrarian Chamber, will be implementing one of the programme’s components—institutional catering—across the Lviv and Ternopil regions.
This component involves the supply of basic long-life foodstuffs to institutions providing hot meals and accommodation for internally displaced persons and people with special needs (affected populations). The estimated total number of beneficiaries to be covered by institutional feeding will be 139,500 people. It is planned to distribute over 895 metric tonnes of foodstuffs, namely: flour, cereals, pasta, cooking oil and sugar.
As part of preparations to provide food aid to the affected population, the head of the Lviv Agrarian Chamber, Ihor Vuytsyk, and a team of specialists undertook a working visit to the Ternopil region on 15 January. The purpose of the trip was to establish cooperation with the Ternopil Regional Military Administration regarding the implementation of the institutional catering programme in the Ternopil region and to visit the logistics hub where the supply, distribution and dispatch of food will take place.
A meeting was subsequently held with Viktor Ustenko, Deputy Head of the Ternopil Regional Military Administration, during which the main aspects of implementing the institutional food programme, the conditions for institutions’ participation in the programme, and areas of cooperation to ensure that food aid reaches as many beneficiaries as possible were discussed. During the meeting, Viktor Ustenko emphasised the importance of such a humanitarian mission for the affected population who have found refuge in the Ternopil region, and assured those present that the regional military administration and the leadership of the region’s local communities would do everything possible to facilitate the implementation of this programme.
Ihor Vuytsyk, Chairman of the Lviv Agrarian Chamber, expressed his gratitude for the support from the local authorities and stated his readiness to begin implementing the programme in the coming days.
The team from the Lviv Agrarian Chamber also inspected the warehouse where humanitarian aid for beneficiaries in the region will be received and subsequently redistributed. At the end of the visit, Igor Vuytsyk, Chairman of the LAC Board, held a working meeting with members of the field team, who will be directly responsible for carrying out all practical tasks relating to the delivery of food supplies to beneficiaries in the Ternopil region.