The United Nations World Food Program, or WFP, is preparing to launch a mammoth, three-year relief operation in Afghanistan this year for 7.4 million people at a cost of $1.2 billion but less than half of that amount will actually go to purchasing food for the war-ravaged country.
The majority of the money nearly $730 million is being spent on shipping, land transportation, handling, office construction and U.N. staffing and administration costs, according to program documents obtained by Fox News. Outside experts consulted by Fox News say that some of the costs are more than 100 percent higher than they need to be.
WFPs response is that some of its costs are actually less than in the past, and that higher expenses are required because of the nature of the new relief operation. In other words, they say theyre inefficient because they need to be.
Sticker Shock: Experts Say World Food Program's Afghan Relief Effort Overpriced - United Nations - FOXNews.com
This stuff makes me nuts.
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