The project also wants communities to learn about snakebites and first aid.

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There are also suspicions that Mr Suzuki may have interfered in an aid project to build a hydroelectric power station in Kenya.

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The WFP fed 2m people in October, the first month of a large-scale aid project, but the figure is expected to rise to 5.1m by early 2009.

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Conversely, disaster agencies in the First World have become "far too bureaucratic and tied up in rules, " he said from Jakarta, where he is on leave to work on an aid project.

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