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Current Hunger Emergencies
Syria
As fighting continues, WFP is working to provide food assistance to over a million people who have fled and are now either staying with friends and relatives or living in public shelters.
We aim to reach 1.5 million people inside Syria through food distributions each month. We are prioritising the displaced -- around 1.2 million -- but we also aim to reach the most vulnerable families who are still in their homes but with greatly reduced access to food because of the conflict.
Meanwhile, some 250,000 people have fled across Syria’s borders and become refugees in neighbouring Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. WFP is responding with food vouchers, in-kind food distributions and hot meals in refugee camps. Learn more
Eastern Congo
WFP is very concerned about the fate of tens of thousands of people in Eastern Congo who have fled a new wave of fighting and have little access to food and other basic necessities.
WFP operations have already got under way to provide food assistance to some of the people affected by the upsurge in fighting but there are many more who still need help. WFP operations are essential to prevent hunger and malnutrition especially among children, whose growth and development can be compromised irreversibly if they don’t get the right foods at the right time.
WFP is deploying additional staff to Goma and elsewhere in the region to boost our capacity to respond to this evolving crisis. Learn more
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