Welcome!

You may have just seen me on the "Late Show with David Letterman" where I was talking about hunger and the frontline work of WFP.

It is WFP's goal to put hunger out of business. Together we can do this.

Just 25 cents a day or 50 US Dollars a year can ensure that children have a nourishing cup of porridge in school - virtually transforming their lives.

WFP is as effective as it is efficient. 93 cents out of every dollar goes directly to getting food to those who need it.

WFP is pioneering solutions to hunger including purchasing 80 percent of the food we buy from developing world farmers. This is a win-win that can break the cycle of hunger at its roots.

I have just come back from Haiti, which has been devastated by series of four hurricanes and tropical storms over a six-week period. I saw people in Gonaives walking knee-deep in grey-brown mud, and escaping to the refuge of their roofs, where they are living as they wait for water to recede and mud to dry.

Their children need your help now. Any contribution you can make will go to school meals.

You can be part of the solution now.

Josette Sheeran
WFP Executive Director

• There are 923 million undernourished people in the world today
• Every six seconds, one child dies from hunger and related diseases
• About 59 million primary school-aged children go to school hungry
• It costs only 25 US cents a day to give a child a WFP school meal

• A million people are homeless, 50,000 are in shelters
• Three million cubic metres of mud need to be removed from the city of Gonaives
• US$100 million of crops have been destroyed
• WFP aims to feed 800,000 people in urgent need of food assistance
• WFP needs US$54 million to provide food for Haiti's homeless and storm ravaged

• WFP is the world's largest humanitarian agency
• In 2007, we provided 3.3 million tons of food for 86.1 million
  people
• This year we plan to feed around 90 million people in 80 countries
• At any moment WFP has 30 ships at sea, 70 aircraft in the sky and 5,000 trucks on the ground
• The agency relies entirely on voluntary contributions
• More than 90 percent of funding goes on food or delivery costs