Stories

To mark the international day for the elimination of violence against women, the World Food Programme (WFP) reached out to Lucky, a Rohingya refugee in Cox’s Bazar and advocate for women’s rights and equality

World Food Programme and UNHCR respond as 500 hundred shelters go up in flames 

Conditions such as wasting in children up as poverty caused by coronavirus restrictions hits mothers' access to nutritious food

Thanks to school meals and remote learning resources, students like Fatema can continue to learn and grow at home while schools remain closed in Bangladesh.

World Food Programme and UNICEF call on governments to act on nutrition crisis as Covid-19 school closures reduce the diets of 370 million of the most vulnerable children by 40 percent

World Food Programme works with Government and NGOs to deliver critical food assistance as fire leaves 45,000 people displaced

World Food Programme support in Cox's Bazar enables women like Khurshida to realize untapped potential — at last

How photographs help bring the plight of the Rohingya refugees to light

I am Sawyedollah, a WFP Storyteller and Rohingya refugee. It's World Refugee Week and I wrote this story about why I decided to flee to Bangladesh and seek my alive life.

Electronic vouchers, facilitated by the World Food Programme, are transforming the way people in Cox's Bazaar receive food

The World Food Programme is providing cash assistance as lockdown measures exacerbate poverty

A year ago this week, hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya, long established in Myanmar’s Rakhine state but never granted citizenship…

Rescued by World Food Programme staff, the canine star recounts his experiences in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh

Rohingya women share their stories

Rohingya women share food and tales of horror in Bangladesh settlements

The monsoon season sets new challenges for people living in camps on the Bangladesh border

World Food Programme (WFP) engineer Daniela Villar on monsoon preparations in refugee camps in Bangladesh and being a woman in the male-dominated world of engineering

Forward-thinking makes families better equipped to deal with monsoons in Bangladesh

Three years since around 750,000 Rohingya sought refuge in Bangladesh, four of them share their hopes and struggles.

Satellite imagery has a key role in increasing the efficiency of a humanitarian response

World Food Programme special adviser on maternal and child nutrition looks for a ‘silver lining' amid the coronavirus pandemic

This is the Rohingya response, one year on

Women especially vulnerable while collecting firewood

Fighting malnutrition in Bangladesh

The World Food Programme is now providing food to people who have fled Myanmar and are taking refuge in Cox's Bazar. But more is needed to make a difference to those who have lost everything.