“This is one of the best projects that we have going in the country” declared Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia.
WFP has started airlifting urgent food assistance into a remote northern region of the Republic of Congo in order to reach tens of thousands of refugees from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who have crossed the border to escape conflict.
WFP is ready to provide full assistance to any independent investigation into its food assistance operations in Somalia, where the agency aims to feed 2.5 million people in 2010. "Our integrity is paramount," said Executive Director Josette Sheeran.
Struggling families in coastal Chile are now receiving rations of WFP fortified High Energy Biscuits (HEBs) following two weekend airlifts to Concepcion. A Chilean student organisation helped to distribute the biscuits to hungry people in the quake zones.
WFP has signed two agreements with the Russian government to strengthen their existing partnership over the next three years in the battle against global hunger. Russia will also assist with providing school meals to children in Armenia.
Women form the backbone of the agricultural sector in many countries and play a key role in getting food onto the table. Speaking on International Women's Day, Isatou Jallow, chief of WFP’s Gender Unit, explains the central role that women play in fighting hunger.
The latest edition of WFP’s annual hunger bytes! competition produced a surge of videos highlighting world hunger. One winner contrasted ‘rich world’ diet culture with the plight of the hungry poor. Another put an emergency food ration in a highly unusual context.
The Ecole Bethlehem in Port-au-Prince was badly damaged in the quake and the building is inaccessible. But the schoolyard has been declared safe and the kitchen and toilet are still functioning. So it has become one of the focal points of WFP's new school meals programme - open to all kids of school age in the area.
Eight weeks after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, WFP is now using a three-pronged approach to target food assistance precisely at the most vulnerable victims of the disaster. School meals, nutritious food products and targeted distributions are the keys to this strategy.
English cricketing stars took time out from their tour of Bangladesh for a match against children from a primary school in Dhaka who receive food assistance from WFP. The visit was part of the ongoing Cricket Against Hunger partnership.
Thought-provoking articles that deal with hunger and the issues involved in meeting the hunger challenge.
We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards and drove a mile across empty land before we found what will soon be Ethiopia's largest greenhouse. Nestling below an escarpment of the Rift Valley, the development is far from finished, but the plastic and steel structure already stretches over 20 hectares – the size of 20 football pitches.
Failed rains in northern Burundi have left tens of thousands of people needing food aid and prompted many to seek work in neighbouring Rwanda to earn enough to feed their families. (..) Charles Dei, the humanitarian coordinator in Burundi, who also serves as country director of the World Food Programme (WFP), told IRIN that the lack of rain had adversely affected the January bean and maize harvest.
Three years ago, I was working as a U.S. Spokesperson for the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) and met Lauren Bush, a Princeton student, who designed a bag that would feed kids around the world in school. In February 2007, Lauren and I co-founded FEED Projects, a small (ahem, two-person) company with the mission of selling these "FEED" bags to support WFP's international school feeding efforts.
His travels may take him to Ethiopia, Malawi, Lesotho or to the far corners of Ireland. His meetings may be with heads of state, parliamentarians, budgetary bean counters or with farmers and school children. His missions may range from promoting new conservation tilling techniques to considering the role of breast pumps in improving infant nutrition in Africa.
