World Food Programme Fighting Hunger Worldwide

United Nations World Food Programme Philippines’ National Ambassador Against Hunger, KC Concepcion, conducted food feeding and relief operations for flood-affected communities in the City of San Fernando, Pampanga last Tuesday, 14 August 2012.

WFP has received a grant of $AU1 million, approximately P43.8 million, from the Australian government to boost WFP’s contingency food stocks for enhanced disaster response capacity in the Philippines.

The Australian government has made available up to A$1 million in food supplies to be delivered through the World Food Program (WFP), to assist Filipinos who have been affected by the severe flooding that recently devastated Metro Manila and surrounding areas.

Donations continue to pour in for the thousands of families displaced by the widespread monsoon floods in Metro Manila and nearby provinces. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has mobilized logistics and food support to complement the Philippine government’s emergency relief efforts, while Australia will also send food supplies for flood-affected people through the WFP.

As Philippine authorities continue to provide food and other emergency provisions to more than two million people affected by widespread flooding, the UN World Food Programme is providing 52.5 tonnes of high-energy biscuits and hiring trucks to help the government transport other relief supplies.

The United Nations' World Food Program (WFP) has donated 52.5 metric tons of high-energy biscuits to help feed 262,500 people affected by the recent widespread flooding in Metro Manila and outlying provinces.

MANILA, Philippines—The World Food Programme (WFP) has started distributing high-energy and vitamin-enriched biscuits to evacuees in flood-hit communities around Luzon, in the wake of monsoon floodings that have left more than two million people affected and 66 people dead.

MARAWI CITY, Lanao del Sur -- The province will continue to receive assistance from the United Nations (UN) World Food Programme (WFP) until 2014.

This was announced by UN-WFP Deputy Country Director Asaka A. Nyangara during the ceremonial launching of the Protracted Relief and Recovery Operations (PRRO) at the Provincial Capitol Social Hall Monday, July 2.

Hundreds of residents in Maguindanao recently benefited from a caravan that offered health and nutrition services to pregnant mothers, nursing mothers with six-month to three-year old babies, families with children below years old.

WFP's Cash-for-Work programme for Tropical Storm Washi survivors was officially launched in Iligan City, through a memorandum of understanding signed with the city government and WFP's NGO partners.