World Food Programme Fighting Hunger Worldwide

WFP Tanzania assists some 70,000 refugees through fortnightly general food distributions, providing rations of Super Cereal, pulses, fortified vegetable oil and salt to ensure refugees receive their minimum dietary requirement of 2,100 kilocalories per day.

Distribution of rations is carried out by food committees, made up of groups of refugees. Here, members of the food committee are shown measuring out maize flour.

In 2012, WFP distributed over 18,000 metric tons of food to refugees in northwestern Tanzania.

Vegetable oil fortified with vitamins A & D is provided to refugees to help meet their basic nutrition needs.

Through a programme known as supplementary feeding, WFP provides targeted nutritional support to vulnerable members of the refugee community, including women and children. In 2012, some 7,000 pregnant and nursing women and children under 5 benefitted from supplementary feeding.

A group of refugees display their rations. Almost 70,000 refugees in Tanzania are currently living on WFP-provided humanitarian assistance as their only source of food. 

A woman cooks WFP-provided maize for her family of five.

A family relaxes after their meal of maize and pulses.