{"id":353109,"date":"2011-03-31T14:15:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T14:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/31\/there-is-food-at-refugee-camps-unhcr\/"},"modified":"2011-03-31T14:15:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T14:15:36","slug":"there-is-food-at-refugee-camps-unhcr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/31\/there-is-food-at-refugee-camps-unhcr\/","title":{"rendered":"There Is Food At Refugee Camps &#8211; UNHCR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>The Assistant Public Information Officer of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Madam Ewurabena Hutcful, has debunked media reports about shortage of food at Ampain and Elubo  refugee camps in the Western Region.<\/p>\n<p>She told the GNA in an interview that there is enough food at the<br \/>camps and the refugees who complained of hunger were those who just<br \/>arrived from the Cote d\u2019Ivoire and were going through registration<br \/>process.<\/p>\n<p>Madam Hutchful indicated that about 200 asylum seekers arrive<br \/>daily, saying, currently there are 3,129 of them at both camps with 60<br \/>percent of them being women and the rest children and men.<\/p>\n<p>She explained that the UNHCR, Ghana Refugee Board, Catholic<br \/>Secretariat, National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) and<br \/>other agencies had been supportive in providing food and other social<br \/>amenities to the asylum seekers.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, the host communities had been gracious and<br \/>showed immense hospitality to the refugees by sharing their food,<br \/>water and other social amenities with them.<\/p>\n<p>On the security situation at the camps, she said the security<br \/>agencies had been on high alert and averted unnecessary infiltration<br \/>of security personnel from the Ivory Coast.<br \/>\u201cEven though there were security lapses at the border initially<br \/>but at the moment the Police Service, Immigration Service, Bureau of<br \/>National Investigation, Customs Excise and Prevention (CEPS) under<br \/>Ghana Revenue Authority and other security agencies have ensured<br \/>security at both camps and the border though the security services are<br \/>in the best position to tell you more about what they are doing,\u201d<br \/>Madam Hutchful said.<\/p>\n<p>She noted that the Ghana Health Service was providing health<br \/>services to those who came with various ailments with the support of<br \/>the mobile clinic made available by the Ellembelle District Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Durbars are also organised to educate them on how to observe<br \/>hygienic practices at the camps to avert the outbreak of cholera and<br \/>other communicable diseases.<\/p>\n<p>She advised the media to always consult the authorities concerned<br \/>on the refugee situation to avoid sensational reportage that could<br \/>create fear and panic in the host communities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/201ed65bget.media_2006-150x90.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more here: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Assistant Public Information Officer of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Madam Ewurabena Hutcful, has debunked media reports about shortage of food at Ampain and Elubo refugee camps in the Western Region. She told the GNA in an interview that there is enough food at the camps and the refugees who complained of hunger were those who just arrived from the Cote d\u2019Ivoire and were going through registration process<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-353109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>There Is Food At Refugee Camps - UNHCR - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/31\/there-is-food-at-refugee-camps-unhcr\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"There Is Food At Refugee Camps - UNHCR - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Assistant Public Information Officer of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Madam Ewurabena Hutcful, has debunked media reports about shortage of food at Ampain and Elubo refugee camps in the Western Region. 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