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Housing Reconstruction, Turkey, 1971. 
Having collected their WFP rations at the distribution centre, a family takes the food home by horse and cart.
Turkey has a serious housing shortage due to a rapidly increasing population, and, in a country already subject to disastrous earthquakes, the problem is further aggravated by the mass movement of rural people to urban centres. The UN/FAO World Food Programme is supplying food assistance valued at more than $10 million spread over a four-year period to aid a Government housing project. This is designed to solve two types of problems - the resettlement of squatters, who have illegally built shacks on the outskirts of the principal cities, and the rehousing of those whose homes have been destroyed by earthquakes. A total of 84,000 families will benefit from the project. Rations comprising wheat, dried skim milk, vegetable oil, pulses and coffee are supplied for a six-month period as an incentive while they are engaged in building or improving their dwellings on a self-help basis. By arrangement with WFP the Government was permitted to sell 19,370 tons of the wheat provided, and the proceeds were matched by the Government to construct prefabricated housing units.


05/09/2018

Country or Territory Türkiye

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