WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran promised during a visit to the village of Ruhiira to double the amount of food that WFP buys from local women farmers. The beans produced in this southern village -- part of the Millennium Village Project -- go to feed hungry children in the north.
On his 88th birthday, former US Senator and presidential candidate George McGovern completed a skydive to raise awareness about hunger. The 18,000-foot jump, the first ever for the former US Air Force pilot, was recorded on video by the Skydive Space Center in Florida.
I'm not sure if there's real security, but I'm taking the chance.
Uzamukumbda Butama
a woman who has recently returned
to her home in eastern Congo after
being displaced by conflict 18 months
ago. She and many other returnees
are receiving WFP food as they try to
start again. Read more
