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Sir Bernard Braine
To ask the Secretary of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office whether he will make a contribution towards the UNICEF programme for child immunisation and water supplies in Lebanon; and what additional support he is able to give to other UNICEF programmes for mother and child care elsewhere.
Mr. Chris Patten
I recently approved a grant of £1·093 million for UNICEF to help mothers and children in extremely difficult circumstances in the Lebanon. The money will be used for immunisation, essential drugs, water supply and education.I also made grants to UNICEF programmes in the following countries :
Angola—£820,000 for support of water supply and sanitation, control of diarrhoeal diseases, growth monitoring and nutrition.
Zambia—£820,000 to support the general child survival and development programme.
Sudan— £1·640 million to provide support for nutritional surveillance, diarrhoeal diseases control, family health care, nutrition and children in difficult circumstances.
Belize—£60,000 to cover the cost of the country's five year national plan for integrated rural development to develop a model and infrastructure for channelling Government and donor funds and technical support.
Including these grants the total British Government contribution to UNICEF in the financial year 987–88 was £15.223 million.