[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 143 (Sunday, October 11, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2068]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME'S FRONTLINE: DOUGLAS BRODERICK OF ROCKLAND COUNTY, 
                                NEW YORK

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                        HON. BENJAMIN A. GILMAN

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                       Saturday, October 10, 1998

  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Speaker, Douglas Broderick of Rockland County, New 
York, is an important part of the U.N. World Food Program's (WFP) 
history. Working for WFP since 1992, Broderick has been on the 
frontline of numerous crises including the former Yugoslavia, Somalia, 
and Rwanda.
  Today, as a WFP Senior Advisor to the Country Director in North 
Korea, Doug Broderick is the senior American helping to run the biggest 
emergency operation in WFP's history.
  WFP, which has been marshaling food aid for North Korea since 
government mismanagement and destructive floods hit the country, 
appealed to the international community to provide more than 600,000 
tons of emergency food aid worth $346 million for the 12 months through 
next March. Three years of disastrous flooding, droughts, and tidal 
waves exacerbated the already existing agricultural problems facing 
North Korea. The result has been chronic food shortages, widespread 
hunger, and malnutrition.
  From Mr. Broderick's base in Pyongyang, WFP is currently delivering 
392,000 tons of food to over 6 million persons or almost one-third of 
the population. He helps manage WFP operations including a staff of 74 
and sub-offices in Chongjin, Hamhung, Sinuiju, and Wonson.
  By the end of 1997, WFP was able to provide emergency food to over 
2.6 million children aged 6 and under, one million hospital patients as 
well as 250,000 farmers participating in food-for-work agricultural 
projects.
  In North Korea, children make up the largest group of recipients--
totaling 5 million. WFP's aid targets the most vulnerable populations--
children, pregnant, and nursing women, orphans and hospital patients.
  On the event of World Food Day, I want to hail Doug Broderick and his 
team who are saving lives each day in North Korea. On behalf of 
Rockland County and the Nation as a whole, we are proud of Doug and his 
WFP colleagues in their work to end hunger around the world.

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