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September 28, 2001
First Food for Progress Shipment of Dehydrated Potatoes Approved for Tajikistan
USDA will donate 450 metric tons of dehydrated potatoes (flakes) to Care and Save the Children under USDA's Food for Progress Program. This is the first time that dehydrated potatoes has been approved under this program. Care plans to implement a maternal child health nutrition program distributing small packets of food to mothers. Save the Children plans an institutional program to feed preschool children. The food donation comes at a particularly important time given the fact that many Tajikistanis suffer from dietary deficiencies and that the country is in its second year of a drought. The dehydrated potatoes will be distributed between October 2001 and September 2002.
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