"Taking urgent measures by sending food" where needed, while making sure "facing the structural problems of worldwide poverty is a priority". Louis Michel, EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aids, explains the EU strategy for subsidising the developing countries. The Brussels’ Executive Committee has published the "workplan" for this area for 2006, which covers an allocation of 197 million euros. The plans aim at "helping accomplish the first objective of the Millennium: to reduce extreme poverty and hunger". The Commission has set out to invest resources in "quick alert actions, the creation of national strategic reserves to prevent deep imbalances on the local markets" in the event of drought or famine, as well as in "improving the children’s diet with the aid of the schools". The EU funds are actually sent to: non-government agencies (68.8 million euros) for "food safety plans"; Unrwa, UN actions for Palestinian refugees (15 million euros); WFP, the World Food Programme (105 million euros), which sends food to Africa; International Red Cross (8 million euros), for aids to Sudan; Fao, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (300 thousand euros).
