Focus on Women Videos


Working many hours a day in an office far from home, Karla Trujillo was losing touch with her children and with her roots in farming. So she decided to change her life. She gave up her job, went back to the family farm in western El Salvador and began learning how to get more out of farming. The training she received through the Purchase for Progress initiative, coordinated by WFP, has already produced huge dividends - in every part of her life.

In the run-up to International Women’s Day 2012, a young Kenyan girl named Molly took part in a live link-up with some school children in Italy. Molly is one of millions of girls around the world who receive nourishing WFP school meals and who are better able to study as a result. The live link-up was part of WFP’s Molly’s World video series, in which Molly and her friends filmed her life in one of the poorest districts of Nairobi.

Kekeletso Mabeleng remembers vividly how she enjoyed getting WFP school meals when she was a small child in a poor district of Lesotho. Now, as an adult, she works for WFP helping make sure today’s children get the same benefits she did. She has been with WFP for eight years and works as a senior programme assistant, implementing nutrition and health programmes with the government.