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Focus on Women
19 March 2012
From Niger to Washington: An International Women's Day Conversation Between Moms
What would happen if moms across the globe sat down to discuss how together we can empower women to have healthier lives? This International Women's Day, we worked with the One Campaign to connect moms doing extraordinary things and make this conversation a reality.
18 March 2012
Meet Molly! Her Future Starts Today
Meet Molly! She’s 13 and she lives in a slum in Nairobi, Kenya. She’s one of the 20 million children around the world who get a nourishing meal at school thanks to WFP. School meals are helping millions of adolescent girls like Molly develop the physical and mental strength they need to pull themselves out of hunger and poverty.
Corporate Publication
16 March 2012
Navruz: Through the eyes of a child
For a sister and brother in eastern Tajikistan, the Central Asian New Year celebration brings art to their WFP school feeding programme and their father home from Russia.
Nutrition
16 March 2012
Feeding The Future Nutrition Education Spreads Best Practice Throughout Laos
Laos has some of the worst child malnutrition rates in the world – every second child under the age of five in rural areas is chronically malnourished, impacting their physical and mental development for a lifetime. Nutrition knowledge is central to tackle this problem, and WFP's innovative nutrition education programme - Feeding the Future - empowers communities throughout the country to improve their diets and ensure children grow up strong and healthy.
15 March 2012
Yemen: Poorest Households Receive Cash To Help With Food Costs
In late 2011, WFP in Yemen began giving cash to the poorest families in the Hajjah and Ibb governorates so that they could afford to buy food. The programme benefits 10,000 vulnerable households, comprising around 70,000 people in total. WFP food monitor Ali Al-Homeidy visited the governorate of Hajjah where he met with family heads collecting their vouchers from their local post office.
Purchase for Progress
14 March 2012
High Energy Biscuits Baked in Kabul
A factory in Kabul has begun producing fortified cookies for WFP school meal programmes in Afghanistan.
Contributions to WFP
14 March 2012
Cambodia: Brazilian Ambassador Visits Flood-Affected Communities Assisted By WFP
A senior Brazilian delegation has recently visited World Food Programme flood response operations in Cambodia which have received generous support from the Government of Brazil. The delegation was led by H.E. Ambassador Paulo Cesar Meira de Vasconcellos accompanied by H.E. Dr. Nhim Vanda, Senior Minister and First Vice President of the National Committee for Disaster Management, Edith Heines, WFP Cambodia Deputy Country Director and Bill Pennington, Assistant Country Director for international NGO CARE.
Responding to Emergencies
12 March 2012
Drought-stricken Ethiopia Provides Relief For Refugees
Fleeing conflict and drought in their native Somalia, Talata and her family undertook a slow and dangerous journey to Ethiopia in search of refuge. Ethiopia, itself reeling from a severe drought, is often seen as a safe haven by refugees fleeing conflict in Somalia, Sudan, and Eritrea.
Focus on Women
7 March 2012
Kenya: Young Mother Rescued From Slide Into Severe Malnutrition
Namuding, a young mother in the drought-hit Turkana region of northern Kenya, is fighting off malnutrition thanks to a nutrition programme supported by the EU. Last year’s drought in the Horn of Africa left many communities weakened, making women and children especially vulnerable.
Responding to Emergencies
15 February 2012
Urgent Call for Timely Action in Drought-Hit Sahel
An urgent call went out for quick action to prevent a full-blown crisis in the Sahel region of West Africa today as leading figures in the fight against hunger met for an emergency meeting at WFP’s Rome headquarters.