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International Women's Day

Women form the backbone of the agricultural sector in many countries and play a key role in guaranteeing that food gets onto the table. On International Women's Day, WFP underlines that women have a central role to play in fighting hunger worldwide. Send a message of solidarity: wfp.org/women

SAFE stoves pilot launched in Copenhagen

WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the launch of the SAFE stoves pilot programme in Copenhagen.

SAFE stoves for women and environment

The SAFE stoves pilot project will provide fuel-efficient stoves to women in Sudan and Uganda, to reduce the risk of violence they run while gathering firewood and at the same time to protect the environment.

A ray of hope in the garbage

Jim shows us the squalor in which Port-au-Prince residents try to eke out an existence. We meet a young mother who cannot even clothe, let alone feed, many of her children. And finally we see how WFP school meals projects are helping to save at least some of Haiti’s children from malnutrition.

Refugee Girl Beats All Odds

Raised in Dadaab, the largest refugee camp in the world, Fatuma Omar is now studying at Nairobi's top girls school. WFP food assistance while in Dadaab gave her the chance to develop her innate intelligence and provided a foundation on which her determined spirit could build success.