Run by a Thai survivor of polio and her husband, the workshop purchases and customises wheelchairs and mobility aids for needy recipients.

Through the gifts in-kind program, Stop Hunger Now works with partners to identify donors and needy recipients of in-kind aid.

This gave states no incentive to direct welfare funds to the neediest recipients or to encourage individuals to go off welfare benefits (the state lost federal money when someone left the system).

Dr. Michell persuaded a large pharmaceutical manufacturer that it could move large quantities of short dated stock from its warehouses across Asia directly to needy recipients without fear of exceeding their shelf life.

The needy recipients in Miss Pavlycheva's red corner seem less ambivalent and more grateful than Pravda about the boon.

He argued that welfare was a form of property, and that as such it could not be taken away from needy recipients without the due process protection of the 14th Amendment.

Instead of accepting the stamps from needy recipients in exchange for food, prosecutors said, the suspects bought them at far less than face value, then redeemed them from the Government at a profit.

Then, the Federal complaint said, they used those accounts to deposit large amounts of stamps not obtained from shoppers but bought at a discount from traffickers who bought them illegally from the original needy recipients.

In the past, when United Nations food was sent to towns and villages, it was handed over to Somali relief committees who were supposed to divide it fairly among the neediest recipients.

Such huge reductions will inevitably impair health services for the neediest recipients.