100 Afghan refugees freeze or starve every day in one camp

[Gordon Fitch]

Mark Pavlick:
> > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4328292,00.html
> >> Refugees left in the cold at 'slaughterhouse' camp
> >> ...
> >> "We  travelled  more  than  125  miles to this camp," she said. When I
> >> arrived  I had four children, now I have two. We've had nothing to eat
> >> for a week."
> >>
> >> Her  story  is  common.  Although Maslakh was set up four years ago to
> >> deal with the drought, the recent conflict has swollen the camp.
> >>
> >> Fresh  arrivals  find  themselves in a catch-22 situation. They cannot
> >> get help until they are registered as refugees by World Food Programme
> >> staff.  But  they cannot register without help. At the moment, the WFP
> >> has  only  a skeleton staff at Maslakh, not nearly enough to deal with
> >> the thousands already there, let alone those who show up daily.
> >> ...

I'm curious: why can't the people running the camp -- the
World Food Programme -- just hand out food and worry about
registering people as official refugees later?  What am I
missing here?

-- Gordon