Photo Credit: Refugees International
01/28/2005

As the result of sustained advocacy by Refugees International, on January 28 the UN World Food Program delivered rice to various indigenous Phnong villages in Mondulkiri, Cambodia, such as this one in the Pou Chry commune of Pechda district. Last November, an RI assessment mission found that a food shortage was unavoidable due to an unusually short wet season. RI advocacy brought much needed attention to the looming food shortages facing the Phnong, an indigenous hill people that are of some of the poorest and least accessible people in Cambodia.