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by Jorge Candeias, 28 July 2003
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I came cross an interview with James Morris, the director of the World
Food Programme, published last 19 of July (2003).
The WFP is a UN agency that coordinates emergency food deliveries in those
countries and regions where hunger is a major problem and the states have no
means to provide this aid themselves. It has a site at
http://www.wfp.org where you can find more
information.
The interview came illustrated with a photo of James Morris in front of a cloth,
presumably a flag, bearing the organization's symbol. The site, however, shows
the same symbol but with a different sigla. Where the picture has PAM, the site
shows WFP. The site also shows the symbol on different backgrounds and in
different colours. So what are the colours of the flag? The answer needed some
digging, but at
http://www.wfp.org/index.asp?section=7_3 one can find a picture of a high
WFP official in front of a flag, in colour. It turns out that the flag is white
with the symbol in UN blue.
But why different siglas? This is, apparently, a language thing, and there is
the likeliness that other versions of the symbol (and therefore of the flag) are
made with the sigla in different languages. WFP is the sigla in English, and
that's probably how the standard flag appears. PAM is the sigla in Portuguese
and a number of other Latin languages (in Portuguese the organization is called
"Programa Alimentar Mundial"). So, there are at least these two variations of
the flag, which I have drawn here.
Jorge Candeias, 28 July 2003
by Jorge Candeias, 28 July 2003
The second one is also valid in Spanish-speaking countries, since "Programa Alimentario Mundial" is the Spanish name of WFP.
Santiago Dotor, 30 July 2003