Only about 1 percent of the bill's total cost gets sent abroad to provide a small amount of food relief to those in need.

He also promised to mobilize government resources to bring food relief to famine areas, reduce the government's international debt, and build a national political consensus.

Timely outside help can also keep food relief from becoming a new source of ethnic contention.

Today the first ship in weeks arrived here carrying food relief.

Similarly, both sides have blocked or hijacked food relief to famine-stricken areas.

This organization provides food relief in areas that need it most and is one of the major funders of school feeding programs.

Afghanistan now presents the most urgent case for food relief, having faced years of conflict and drought, plus a bitterly cold winter.

In 2003, it estimates that 325,000 Long Islanders sought food relief; last year the figure was 350,000.

Yet the government intends to ask for more food relief this year.

The United States is traditionally the largest donor of international food relief.