The Catholic Relief Service, (CRS) is to close up its Food Assisted Child Survival (FACS) and School Feeding Programmes in all its beneficiary districts by September 2008. That means in real terms, the food distribution will not be there, some of the current areas of support will not also be available. The Catholic Relief Service would however continue to be a relevant partner in health and education and collaborate with the Ghana Health Service and other partners as well as all communities in rolling out innovative and people centred programmes with the collective aim of achieving the targets set under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Mr. Mohammed Ali, a senior programme officer of CRS in-charge of health in the Northern, Upper West and Upper East Regions announced this at the launch of the Wa East District Health Community Child Survival Campaign Activities at Tinniabelle on Tuesday. The campaign is on the theme: "Breast feeding, the best way for a healthy child and mother". Mr. Ali said the close out of the programmes haD become necessary as a result of many reasons, including dwindling donor resources, prioritization of available resources, changes in US foreign assistance policies and the fact that Ghana was being rated as an emerging nation. He said even though beneficiary communities and districts would feel the immediate gap, they should see it as growth process for CRS and the communities that have matured sufficiently in health issues relating to mother and child. Source: GNA