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How Food Is Empowering Women In Afghanistan

A series of food assistance projects in northeastern Afghanistan are helping to teach women how to read and write as well as grow fresh vegetables they can sell on the local market. As an extra incentive to take part in the project, the women are provided food rations by WFP.

Happy International Women's Day From Mount Kilimanjaro

From the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, an all-women team of climbers from Africa and Asia share a message for International Women's Day about what women can achieve when they receive an education and the right nutrition as girls. WFP school meals help make this happen for millions of girls around the world, so that as adults they themselves will be able to keep hunger at bay.  Find out more

Food Assistance to Internally Displaced People in Mali (For The Media)

Following a temporary suspension in operations after the military intervention earlier this month, WFP has resumed food distributions to displaced people in central Mali, including to around 22,000 people in the town of Mopti and 12,000 in the capital, Bamako.

"We Are Learning And We Love It": Guatemalan Women Get New Opportunities

In central Guatemala, WFP is working to provide food assistance in areas struck by recent flooding to women who are also learning valuable gardening skills, which have changed the way they live and eat.

WFP Teams Up With Sister UN Agencies To Support Rural Women

Speaking at the start of Day 4 of UN General Assembly week in New York, WFP Executive Director Ertharin Cousin explains how UN Women and the three Rome-based UN agencies are about to launch a joint programme aimed improving the lives of rural women in the developing world.