News

Darfur Women Graduate From Safe Stoves Project

A group of women in Darfur say they’re ready to move beyond food assistance thanks to a set of skills they’ve learned through a WFP-supported project that teaches women in the troubled region how to make their own fuel-efficient cook stoves.

Nutrition

7 November 2012

Nepal: Sky Is The Limit For School Meals Girl

Nim Doma Sherpa, who became the first WFP school meals recipient to climb Everest, is now preparing to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania next year as part of her team’s mission to reach the highest peak on all the seven continents. She will be joined by six Nepali and three African women climbers and will be highlighting the importance of girls’ education around the world.

5 November 2012

South Sudan: A Day In The Life Of Umjima

Conflict in Sudan has sent a wave of refugees pouring across the border into South Sudan. A mother of seven children, Umjima Yacob is one of them. Here's a look at a day in her life.

Responding to Emergencies

2 November 2012

Myanmar: WFP Steps Up Rakhine Response To Newly Displaced

Daw Thin Mya’s intelligent eyes sparkle through her glasses. Fifty-five years old, a successful businesswoman and mother of four, she is sitting outside a makeshift ‘dormitory’ of wood and corrugated iron that she and nine other families now call home.

NGOs

2 November 2012

WFP Partners Meeting Focuses On Strategy

WFP’s partners have an important role to play in devising WFP’s overall strategy for tackling world hunger, agreed delegates to the annual WFP Partnership Consultations this week in Rome. New innovations and technologies emerged as key themes in the meeting, which brought together a greater number of partner organisations than ever before.

Focus on Women

1 November 2012

South Sudan: Positive Impact of Nutrition Support Visible Among Refugee Children

A combined effort by health, water, sanitation and nutrition partners, including the World Food Programme (WFP), to reduce alarming malnutrition rates amongst Sudanese refugees who have settled in Maban County of South Sudan, is beginning to yield fruit. Parents say they have seen dramatic improvements in their children’s health.

Cash and Vouchers

31 October 2012

Bolivia: Basilia Decides What Food Her Family Will Eat

Since she was a little girl, Basilia already knew about orchards. Her mother died when she was eight years old, meaning she had to leave school to take care of the orchards and the care and feeding of her little brothers alongside her father. Today, a WFP cash and vouchers programme, financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), teaches Basilia and other women new techniques to cultivate orchards. The result is a better nutrition for their families.

Aid professionals

30 October 2012

Disaster Simulation Readies Telecomms Team For Emergencies

An immersive disaster simulation in Germany recently put the skills of an emergency telecoms team to the test with many of the same hazards and dilemmas that await them in the field. Armed militants and angry mobs were just a few of the scenarios participants had to negotiate in the process of setting up telecoms services for an emergency response.

Preventing Hunger

29 October 2012

WFP Joins The Fight Against Locusts In The Sahel

As families in the Sahel struggle to recover from this year’s hunger crisis, tens of millions of locusts threaten to swarm across the region devouring the new harvest. To ensure that doesn’t happen, WFP has airlifted insecticide to Mali and Chad in a joint operation with its sister agency, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.

ED - E.Cousin

29 October 2012

WFP Partners Gather For Strategic Talks In Rome

As the world’s frontline agency in the battle against hunger, WFP counts on the assistance of thousands of non-governmental organisations and other partners to carry out its work in the field. On 29 October, the heads of more than 20 organisations will head to WFP headquarters in Rome to discuss how to strengthen those partnerships through new innovations and greater efficiency.