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  • Story 21 hours ago

    Sudan: Vouchers And New Skills Put Food On The Table

    A refugee from Eritrea, Amna Mohamed has spent most of her life in eastern Sudan. A widow and mother of four, her life has never been easy. But it recently took a turn for the better with the help of a voucher programme that put food on the table while she learned how to embroider and make jewellery—skills that will help her provide for her family.
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  • Video 2 hours ago

    Families In DR Congo Return Home As Violence Subsides

    Families In DR Congo Return Home As Violence Subsides

    Families are beginning to return home after a recent spate of fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo which uprooted nearly one million people. It's a painful homecoming for those returning to looted houses and neglected fields, who will continue relying on WFP food assistance as they rebuild their lives.
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  • Story 6 days ago

    Snapshots From 2012

    From the conflicts in Syria and Congo, to the drought in the Sahel region of Africa, 2012 threw up a challenging sequence of emergencies to WFP and its humanitarian partners. Here are 12 photos that look back on a year in WFP's fight against hunger.
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  • Story 1 week ago

    A Bowl Of Ugali And An Uncertain Future In North Kivu

    The conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has wrested children from their families and homes. Today, they count among the most vulnerable of the tens of thousands of displaced people in the region. Some have found refuge at the Don Bosco Center, a Catholic institution in Noth Kivu's provincial capital of Goma, where WFP is providing school meals. 
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  • WFP Photo Gallery 1 week ago

    Haiti: “When the Bell Rings, It’s Like a Traffic Jam”

    Haiti: “When the Bell Rings, It’s Like a Traffic Jam”
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  • @WFP_Students 6 days ago

    Get started raising awareness about #hunger on social media with our cool toolkit: http://t.co/ftZsBUfo

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  • News Release 1 week ago

    Good News For Swaziland's Orphans And Needy Children At Year's End

    MBABANE –As the festive season approaches, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) will be celebrating - along with 97,000 orphans and 33,000 other vulnerable children - with the resumption of food distributions to 1,600 Swaziland neighbourhood care points. The service was disrupted earlier this year due to lack of funding.
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  • @WFP 6 days ago

    What's a High Energy Biscuit? An ideal food item for #emergencies - easy to transport, no cooking needed. #hunger http://t.co/lKMtuDQl

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  • WFP Photo Gallery 1 week ago

    Home After The Fighting In Eastern DR Congo

    Home After The Fighting In Eastern DR Congo
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  • @wfp_business 5 days ago

    Have you done the @WFP emergency quiz? http://t.co/CJetiwUN

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  • Hunger in the News 5 days ago

    How Giving Became Cool

    Source: The New York Times It was 15 years ago that Ted Turner needed something interesting to say in a speech — and decided, in a rush, to give away $1 billion. (..) So, in front of a stunned dinner audience, he announced a $1 billion gift to United Nations causes such as fighting global poverty. (..) Turner’s gift helped change that culture, reviving the tradition of great philanthropists like Rockefeller and Carnegie. Turner publicly began needling other billionaires — including Bill Gates and Warren Buffett — to be more generous. That was a breach of etiquette, but it worked.
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  • Video 6 days ago

    Syria: How WFP Is Helping Families Fleeing The Conflict

    Syria: How WFP Is Helping Families Fleeing The Conflict

    Humanitarian needs, especially food, are growing across Syria as shortages of bread and fuel set in and countless families are displaced. WFP is reaching about 1.5 million people monthly in Syria and, as thousands more Syrians pour into neighbouring countries, we are also responding to the needs of refugees in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey. Here’s an overview.
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  • WFP Photo Gallery 2 weeks ago

    Afghanistan: Winter Help For Refugees In Kabul

    Afghanistan: Winter Help For Refugees In Kabul
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  • Hunger in the News 2 weeks ago

    Increasingly hard to provide food aid in Syria: UN

    Source: France 24 / AFP The UN's World Food Programme warned Tuesday that the spiralling violence in Syria was making it increasingly difficult to distribute food in the war-torn country. (..) "Food needs are growing in Syria," said WFP spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs, whose organisation distributes most of its aid in Syria through the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC). (..) Fuel shortages have also impacted WFP's ability to distribute aid, it said, adding that there were not enough humanitarian partners on the ground to help deliver the aid. The WFP appeal came after UN aid chief Valerie Amos at the weekend asked the Syrian government to allow 10 additional aid organisations into the country.
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  • Video 2 weeks ago

    Mali: Boats Take Food To Families Fleeing Fighting

    Mali: Boats Take Food To Families Fleeing Fighting

    Conflict in the north has forced thousands of families to flee their homes, uprooting half a million people. It's placing added pressure on vulnerable host communities who have not yet recovered from the Sahel drought. The conflict and population movement also complicates matters for agencies like WFP providing humanitarian assistance. WFP is sailing boats up the River Niger in order to bring food to families affected by fighting.
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  • Hunger in the News 2 weeks ago

    Food: How to feed the future

    Source: IRIN Scientists anticipate there will be nine billion people in the world to feed by 2050. As this number rises, so will the earth’s temperature, which is expected to increase four degrees Celsius by the end of the century, wreaking havoc on the world’s food production. Agriculturalists, scientists, businessmen, lobbyists and policymakers convened in London’s Chatham House this week to debate how to feed the planet’s growing population without degrading the earth’s resources - if such a thing is even possible.
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  • Story 2 weeks ago

    Syrian Children Look For Comfort Of Normality In Refugee Camp

    Zeina, 10, and her family were displaced three times inside Syria before coming to Jordan in search of safety. Originally from Homs, the scene of some of the worst fighting in the past months, Zeina’s family shuttled across Syria until they ended up in Zaatari camp.
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  • Story 3 weeks ago

    Mali: WFP Food Is Lifeline For Families Displaced By Conflict

    More than 200,000 people have fled from their homes since conflict erupted in northern Mali earlier this year, worsening an existing hunger crisis brought on by the Sahel drought. Despite the logistical challenges and insecurity, WFP is managing to get food to many of the displaced families.
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For news and views on developments in the world of humanitarian aid, go to the Aid Professionals page. There are maps of crisis zones, the aid pro blog, access to the Food Aid Information System and much much more.

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