World Food Programme Fighting Hunger Worldwide

Recognizing the huge challenges in rebuilding the quake-ravaged Haiti, the international community on Monday endorsed a roadmap to gradually restore order in the Caribbean nation. (..) Recovery for Haiti could be "one of the most complex operations" considering its battered infrastructure, said the UN World Food Program (WFP) chief. "It will take some time for the food infrastructure to come on line," WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran said at a press conference at the UN Headquarters in New York.

Everyone grab a pen, or get to a computer or phone so you can start your job as a "food ambassador" for Haiti. (..) You can write an article for a newspaper, post to a blog or use social networking sites to spread the word about donations to the U.N. World Food Programme to help feed Haiti. Or just make phone calls to friends and neighbors. This sounding of the alarm will be essential for the World Food Programme's fundraising efforts.

Appearing together in a new public service announcement, the duo are teaming up to raise funds for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Haitian relief effort. Donations will go directly to WFP's efforts to get food to survivors of Haiti's devastating earthquake. The PSA urges viewers to donate $5 by texting FRIENDS to 90999 or visit www.fromhungertohope.com. Your donation of $5 will feed 20 hungry children in the earthquake-ravaged country, according to the WFP.

United Nations aid agencies say millions of survivors of Haiti's catastrophic earthquake are in urgent need of tents and food. (..) "Our Executive Director has appealed to all governments, all military around the world to give to us as many ready-to-eat meals as they have on hand, that they can provide to us for Haiti," she [WFP spokeswoman Emilia Casella] said. "The need is extremely urgent and we need them as soon as possible."

Rescuers pulled a man alive from the rubble Saturday, 11 days after Haiti's devastating earthquake, raising hopes of finding more survivors even after the government called off search efforts. The UN World Food Program said it distributed 2 million meals Friday, and 150 health facilities were now running across the city, the World Health Organization said. chinadaily - Nation's efforts come in for praise.

Friday night's star-studded "Hope for Haiti" telethon has raised a record-breaking $58 million (..). Proceeds from the telethon will benefit Oxfam America, Partners in Health, the Red Cross, UNICEF, the U.N. World Food Programme, Yele Haiti Foundation and the Clinton Bush Haiti Foundation.

Grieving families are watching workers recover the bodies of loved ones as Haiti's death roll rises, while aid groups focusing on the living struggle to find tents and sites to erect them for all the people streaming out of Port-au-Prince. (..) 'We wish we could do more, quicker,'' said Josette Sheeran, the U.N. World Food Program chief who was visiting Port-au-Prince. The WFP delivered about 2 million meals to the needy Friday, up from 1.2 million Thursday, Sheeran said. But she acknowledged much more was needed. ''This is the most complex operation WFP has ever launched,'' she said.

The World Food Program, the lead agency supplying food in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, says it has delivered more than 3 million meals, but some have criticized how long the U.N. agency it took to distribute the food. WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran offers her insight. (..) Ms. JOSETTE SHEERAN : Well, we're going to need to scale up in a huge way and continue to do so. We know that the breakdown in the supply chain system here is enormous. There wasn't a great infrastructure to start with, but everything has been devastated. It's like a war zone.

Maxi Extralien, a twig-thin 10-year-old in a SpongeBob pajama top, ate only a single bean from the heavy plate of food he received recently from a Haitian civic group. He had to make it last. (..) “The whole food supply chain has been trashed by the earthquake,” said David Orr, a spokesman for the World Food Program. “The port, the roads, the trucks, the whole commercial life of the country has been disrupted.”

UN Messenger of Peace and Chairperson of International Humanitarian City (IHC) HRH Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein...arrived in Amman, Jordan today from Port-au-Prince with 21 evacuees from around the Middle East who had been left stranded after the devastating earthquake that shook Haiti on January 12.

In a display of international solidarity for Haiti, Princess Haya, under the direction of HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum traveled to Haiti on his personal 747B-400 to oversee a delivery of 90 metric tonnes of relief supplies for the Haitians, meet with Haitian and UN officials and raise awareness of the need for international aid.

The shipment was organized by the International Humanitarian City, a global humanitarian and aid hub in Dubai, at the request of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and included 40 metric tonnes of canned food and high-energy biscuits, and another 50 metric tonnes of hospital tents, water sanitation equipment, prefabricated offices, and computer and telecommunications equipment.