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Together, Mastercard and WFP are helping communities around the world take important steps towards breaking the cycle of hunger and poverty for future generations. Since the partnership began in 2012, Mastercard and partners have contributed more than US$ 50 million to WFP, through cause marketing campaigns, consumer fundraising, events, support for emergencies, employee gifts, and expertise-sharing.

School Feeding: the partnership with Mastercard focuses on the transformational power of school meals – which can help improve children’s health, cognitive development, access to education, and future lifetime earnings. Since 2012, the partnership has delivered the equivalent value of 160 million school meals. Below are a few examples of the on-the-ground impact WFP made around the world, with Mastercard’s support, in 2023:

• In Ecuador, Mastercard’s support helped WFP provide fresh, healthy, and nutritious food from local smallholder farmers to 6,857 children, while facilitating the connection of local producer associations with beneficiary schools.
• In India, contributions from Mastercard allowed WFP to implement interventions in government and government-aided schools, including establishing nutri-gardens and conducting capacity building activities for school stakeholders and Social and behaviour change communication with school children – covering 2,184 schools and approximately 425,000 children.
• With Mastercard’s support in Sierra Leone, WFP reached 49,149 children across 246 schools with school meals, also supporting the transition to Home-Grown School Feeding by enabling local procurement of food, strengthening market access for 2,175 smallholder farmers (mostly women).
• In Ukraine, funding from Mastercard helped WFP scale up the school feeding programme – piloted in early 2023 – to 421 schools in 11 regions, ultimately reaching 49,000 students.

Emergency operations: the partnership has also contributed to supporting WFP’s emergency operations in a variety of contexts. Through grants and dedicated campaigns, Mastercard has contributed over US$ 6 million to WFP’s emergency responses since 2012.

For example, in 2021, a grant from the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth helped the WFP Centre of Excellence against Hunger in Brazil, its partner NGO Ação da Cidadania, and local partners deliver 9.2 million meals in communities across Brazil affected by extreme poverty and incidences of COVID-19 cases and deaths. More recently, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth has donated grants to WFP in support of emergency operations conducted in Pakistan (2022), Türkiye (2023), Palestine (2023) and Lebanon (2024).