World Food Programme Fighting Hunger Worldwide

The view from a helicopter as it crossed the flooded wastelands of Pakistan conveyed the full extent of the crisis currently facing Pakistan.

A village in Punjab all but submerged by flood waters at the end of August, a full month after the monsoon rains unleashed one of the worst natural disasters in Pakistan's history.

WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran (right) discusses the food relief operation in Pakistan with Country Director Wolfgang Herbinger as they survey the flood zone by helicopter.

WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran meets with women who have taken refuge in a local girls' school after losing their homes in Kot Addu, a small town in the Muzzafargarh disctrict of Punjab.

WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran meets with women who have taken refuge in a local girls' school after losing their homes in Kot Addu, a small town in the Muzzafargarh disctrict of Punjab.

WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran holds a baby delivered just days before in a flood shelter by a woman who told her she had lost everything she had.

WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran sat for several hours with women in the Punjab flood shelter to the hear their stories and reassure them that WFP was there to help.

While in Pakistan, WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran met with UNICEF chief Anthony Lake (third from right), in addition to Pakistan officials to discuss relief assistance for the over six million people in need of food aid as a result of the floods.

Josette Sheeran, WFP's Executive Director, discusses relief operations with the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr. Yousaf Raza Gillani. 1 September 2010

Inauguration of the new WFP Office Building together with Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Gondal and WFP Country Director, Wolfgang Herbinger in the presence of the UN Country Team, Selected Donors/Ambassadors, Selected Government Officials and Selected NGO/Bilats/Institutes.