Location: Seventeen Hospitals in the Four Southern Governorates of Basrah, Thi-Qar, Muthanna, and Missan
Timing: 20 July – 4 August 2003
Budget: $45,000 cash contribution
$25,200 in-kind canned beef donation (1260 lbs)

• AoC partner had a funding gap of two weeks between two larger donors for supplying fresh food to hospitals in the South. They approached AoC to fill this gap.
• Beneficiaries:
  • 4300 the first week
  • 3430 the second week
  • 80% of the patients were women and children
• A total of 152,040 meals were provided
• Each patient received daily:
  • Potato, okra, tomato, onion, eggplant, tomato paste, egg, cheese, milk, beef, rice, banana or apple