Mali receives pledge of 520 million euros from EU

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.”

Syria's internally displaced

As the conflict in Syria drags on, more and more people are becoming displaced and the United Nations is having increasing difficulty in providing all of them with the aid they need to get by. (..) "We are being hindered in some areas of the country simply because we can't move around easily. (..) The other key challenge we have is funding," says WFP Deputy Country Director Kate Newton

Running the Gauntlet: Delivering Food in Syria

Aid workers in Syria are struggling to navigate a lawless archipelago of armed groups to get food to Syrians trapped in a fast-intensifying civil war, the head of the World Food Programme's Syria operation says. (..) Matthew Hollingworth said in an interview last week that WFP is trying to feed 2.5 million people every month inside Syria - a tenth of the population - and a million outside, in a conflict that has left 70,000 dead. (..) "We are trying to keep up with the enormity of the crisis and the impact of the brutality," he said.

Sustainable Ecological Business Development in Haiti

We are partnering with the International Organization for Migration, the World Food Program (WFP), the International Lifeline Fund and now we are grateful to the support of the Clinton Foundation that is enabling us to scale up and diversify our operation. (..) The WFP estimates that each school in the program uses an average of 1,000 briquettes per month, so the long-term full scale demand for briquettes is significant. By introducing the briquettes through school feeding programs, we can reach a wide audience and prove the effectiveness of the briquettes through trusted community liaisons. We have so far delivered more than 200,000 briquettes to the WFP, and based on our calculations, that means we have saved an estimated 8,000 trees already.