World Food Programme Fighting Hunger Worldwide

Throughout the holiday season, WFP is working around the clock with the Philippine Government and other partners to respond to the needs of communities affected by Typhoon Bopha.

Isolated communities in the Philippines including hill tribes are facing hunger a week after a typhoon struck, and with roads blocked, supplies will have to be dropped by air, authorities said on Tuesday. (..) Stephen Anderson, country director for the World Food Programme in the Philippines, said help had to be delivered fast to communities that had lost everything -- homes, crops and all "productive assets". "These people are extremely vulnerable ... it's a race against time," Anderson told Reuters.

Hundreds of people were still missing Monday after Typhoon Bopha struck the southern stretches of the Philippines last week, claiming more than 600 lives and displacing more than 5 million people. (..) The typhoon devastated whole villages swamped with sudden floods, triggering deadly landslides and wiping out crops. The U.N. launched an appeal Monday for $65 million to help the Philippines recover by providing food, water and emergency shelter to the worst-hit areas.

The Philippine government and the United Nations are launching a global appeal to help the victims of Typhoon Bopha, as the toll continues to climb, while hundreds of people are still missing after the storm devastated the south of the country. At least 650 people are killed, while millions are left homeless and in desperate need of food aid and other basic goods, the country's disaster chief in Manila told Al Jazeera.

In an effort to have a reliable and accurate inventory and monitoring of relief goods which will result to a more efficient delivery of goods to disaster victims, the Department of Social Welfare and Development and WFP developed the Relief Goods Inventory and Monitoring System (RGIMS).

WFP global partner Yum! Brands recently sent representatives from its Asia Franchise Businesses to the Philippines to visit some of WFP's school feeding sites in the country. Yum! Brands is supporting WFP's school feeding programme through its annual World Hunger Relief campaign. 

Photo Credit: WFP/Anthony Lim

Butuan City Mayor Ferdinand M. Amante, Jr. signed a commitment of partnership with the WFP and the United Nations Habitat during the Sustainable Philippine Cities Project Launching at the Crowne Plaza in Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Oct. 16, 2012.

Following the recent historic peace Framework Agreement, the European Union has provided P312 million to WFP Philippines to boost the livelihood recovery of 50,000 families or 300,000 persons displaced by the past conflict in Mindanao.

Photo Credit: WFP/Anthony Lim

As part of this year's World Food Day celebrations, some 600,000 hot nutritious meals will be given to 100,000 public elementary school children in Central Mindanao through WFP, in partnership with the Department of Education and the Department of Social Welfare and Development, by Unilever Philippines.

TUGUEGARAO CITY -- The United Nations World Food Programme has assisted the town of Enrile, in Cagayan province, north of the Philippines, in strengthening its disaster risk reduction and management through various projects in remote communities. Enrile town is assessed as one of the most vulnerable towns of Cagayan during disasters, as it lies along the Cagayan River and is therefore prone to flasfloods, erosions and landslides.