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Syria Crisis: Overview Of WFP's Response
The State of School Feeding WorldWide: New WFP Report
  • WFP Photo Gallery 1 week ago

    Nicaragua: Providing Cooking Utensils For School Feeding Programme

    Nicaragua: Providing Cooking Utensils For School Feeding Programme
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  • @WFP 9 hours ago

    368 million children around the world receive #SchoolMeals. This map will show you where they live. http://t.co/8UVYDqCz4t

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  • Story 10 hours ago

    School Meals: Where Need Is Greatest, Coverage Is Lowest, WFP Report Finds

    The first State of School Feeding Worldwide report, produced by WFP, provides a global picture of developments in school feeding, with maps, analysis, and research. It shows that despite huge global investment in school meals programmes, many needy children are not covered.
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  • Video 20 hours ago

    "First authoritative source of info on school feeding": World Bank

    "First authoritative source of info on school feeding": World Bank

    "This is the first time there has been an authoritative source of information about school feeding worldwide," says Donald Bundy, a World Bank health and nutrition expert for Africa. He also notes that global investments in school meals programmes are far larger than many experts had realized, and that they vary greatly from one country to the next.
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  • Video 20 hours ago

    School Meals Reach Millions, But Too Few In Countries With Greatest Need

    School Meals Reach Millions, But Too Few In Countries With Greatest Need

    Over 368 million children receive daily school meals in countries around the world, says WFP Policy Officer Carmen Burbano, one of the researchers who prepared WFP's newly released State of School Feeding Worldwide report. Despite the vast reach of school meals programmes, Burbano says that coverage is least adequate in the countries that need it the most. Get the report
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  • @wfp_business 1 day ago

    How many kids receive #SchoolMeals worldwide? The answer in @WFP's first State of School Feeding Worldwide report, out Friday.

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  • Story 2 days ago

    “Nothing should stop me,” says Ethiopian schoolgirl

    WFP’s school meals programme has benefitted millions of school children across Ethiopia over the last 19 years and currently serves some 650,000 students in 1,800 schools in different parts of the country. Fatuma is one of those children.
     
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  • News Release 3 days ago

    Food Security And Nutritional Status In Egypt Worsening Amidst Economic Challenges

    CAIRO – Poverty and food insecurity in Egypt have risen significantly over the last three years according to joint reports released today by the UN World Food Programme (WFP), the government’s Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
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  • Food Factor Podcast 3 days ago

    School Meals: An Investment In The Future

    School-meals experts and policy makers are gathering in Bahia, Brazil this week for the Global Child Nutrition Forum, hosted for the first time by WFP's Centre of Excellence against Hunger. In this episode, we talked with the centre's director, Daniel Balaban, to find out what national governments have to learn about the role of school meals in eradicating hunger.
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  • @WFP 3 days ago

    Nearly 1/3 of children in #Egypt stunted as a result of food insecurity. From our report, released today: http://t.co/sxJD1u3dU2

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  • News Release 3 days ago

    Global Child Nutrition Forum 2013 Kicks Off In Brazil

    BRASILIA – Close to 300 delegates from 37 countries are converging today on  Costa do Sauípe, Brazil, to exchange experiences and debate options to strengthen school feeding programmes for millions of children worldwide at the Global Child Nutrition Forum 2013. 

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  • Story 4 days ago

    Food Keeps Girls In School In Yemen

    Ali Mohamed Ghaleb’s five daughters give him a special interest in supporting the innovative Food For Girls’ Education Programme that WFP has been operating in Yemen since 2007. The 44-year-old retired military officer says it helps him keep them in school.
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  • Hunger in the News 1 week ago

    Mali receives pledge of 520 million euros from EU

    Source: Euronews Ertharin Cousin, of the World Food Programme expressed her concern as the money pledged so far is only a quarter of what the nation is looking for. “The challenge is that there are 300,000 people who are still internally displaced from the north living in the south of Mali, there another in the 175000 living in the surrounding countries and today we are also feeding another 700,000 who are entire need of food assistance.”
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  • WFP Photo Gallery 1 week ago

    A Schoolgirl’s World In Zaatari Refugee Camp

    A Schoolgirl’s World In Zaatari Refugee Camp
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  • Video 1 week ago

    Families Fleeing DR Congo's "Triangle Of Death" Receive Assistance From WFP

    Families Fleeing DR Congo's "Triangle Of Death" Receive Assistance From WFP

    WFP is assisting families fleeing the so-called "Triangle of Death" along the Democratic Republic of Congo's border with Tanzania. Armed groups have driven some 200,000 people from their homes, many of whom have come to the town Pweto in search of assistance.
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  • Youtube Video 1 week ago

    WFP Myanmar: Getting Ready For Cyclone Mahasen

    WFP Myanmar: Getting Ready For Cyclone Mahasen

    WFP in Myanmar, in anticipation of the impact of Cyclone Mahasen, has distributed food rations to displaced people in and around Sittwe, Rakhine State which ...
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  • Story 1 week ago

    WFP Ready To Assist As Cyclone Mahasen Hits Bangladesh And Myanmar

    Amid roaring winds and dark clouds on the horizon as Cyclone Mahasen rolls in, WFP staff in Bangladesh and Myanmar stand ready to respond where necessary.
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  • Hunger in the News 1 week ago

    Lesson From A Famine: Markets Matter

    Source: Huffington Post Sidama Elto is one of 16 cooperative unions in Ethiopia that have signed forward contracts with the WFP for the purchase of more than 28,000 metric tons of maize grown by their smallholder farmer members. The maize, which is part of 112,000 tons of food the WFP purchased in Ethiopia last year, will be used for WFP relief distributions in the country. Ten years ago, many of those farmers and their families were receiving food aid from the WFP. One of the major lessons in agricultural development over the past decade is this: Markets Matter.
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  • Story 1 week ago

    8 Things To Know About Hunger In Mali

    A year of conflict in the West African nation of Mali has brought hunger to hundreds of thousands of people. Drought and endemic poverty have also taken their toll. Here are 8 things to know about hunger in Mali and what WFP is doing to deliver food and hope to the people who live there.
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