World Food Programme Fighting Hunger Worldwide

WFP started providing food assistance to more than 552,000 conflict-affected people in Osh and Jalalabad in the immediate aftermath of the violence in June 2010. Since then, WFP has facilitated several targeted food distributions – through its main cooperating partners Agency for Technical Cooperation (ACTED) and Save the Children – that are reaching more than 200,00o people still affected by the violence and destruction of last year.

Most of conflict affected populations are still facing the difficult task of rebuilding their livelihoods. Given the continued hardships faced by a large number of affected people, WFP extended its General Food Distribution programme until June 2011.

Registration desk at a WFP food distribution point in Orke village, an ethnically mixed neighbourhood in Osh city. The selection criteria for targeted food distributions after the June 2010 crisis in the cities of Osh and Jalalabad are prominently displayed.

WFP was one of the first UN agencies on the ground, distributing food assistance to the conflict affected populations through its General Food Distribution programme. In Summer 2010, WFP distributed fortified wheat flour, vegetable oil and high energy biscuits to more than 552,000 people in Osh and Jalal-Abad.

Women are queuing up for six-week food rations including fortified wheat flour, vegetable oil, salt and pulses in the southern village of Orke, which was affected by ethnic violence in June 2010.

For many beneficiaries of the General Food Distribution Programme, the WFP food assistance helps them to alleviate some of the pressure they face in meeting their daily food needs and prevents from engaging in potentially harmful coping strategies.

A female-headed family is receiving a 42 feeding day food ration that consists of 15 kg of fortified wheat flour, 2 liters of vegetable oil, 2 kg of pulses and 0,150 kg of iodized salt per person. 

For families with school-aged children food assistance from WFP helps them to keep their children in school. Many parents are still struggling to recover from 2010 conflict in an environment that continues to be unstable and offers limited access to food for many. More than a fifth of the hardest hit population groups after the violence stated they had to discontinue their children’s education for lack of food and resources.  

Pensioners and families with small children are among the conflict affected population in the south of Kyrgyzstan who receive targeted WFP food assistance. This family is queuing up for a 6-week food ration in Ozgur village, an ethnically mixed neighbourhood in Osh city.

This man is one of more than 290,ooo beneficiaries who will receive food assistance from WFP through its last cycle of General Food Distributions from April to June 2011.