Taiwan pledges to donate 4,000 tons of rice to Kenya

About 200,000 people in affected areas will benefit from the donation, said Wu Rong chuan, vice chairman of MOFA's NGO Affairs Committee.

The rice will be delivered as soon as the inspection and packaging processes have been completed, he said.

The goodwill gesture highlights Taiwan's active role in the distribution of humanitarian aid, the vice chairman said, adding that the government reserves about 8,700 metric tons of rice each year for charitable donations.

Besides donating rice, local charity groups, such as the Red Cross Society of the Republic of China, routinely provide financial assistance to East African countries that are being devastated by drought, he said.

Next month, four NGO workers funded by the government will travel to Cambodia to meet up with officials from the U.S.-based Mercy Corps to discuss an eight-month long agricultural and medical project in the Middle East, he said.

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