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World Food Programme provides food assistance while a plummeting currency defies hope

How a new project gives immediate recycling solutions to Beirut and long-term skills for its most vulnerable populations

How this single mother and Syrian refugee stays strong for her family

The World Food Programme geared up to serve more people than ever in the country whose economic woes were worsened by COVID-19 and the Beirut port blast

“This is a scenario I have never witnessed before,” Cyril Noujeim shares his experience in being part of the United Nations World Food Programme’s (WFP) response in Lebanon in 2020

A glimpse at typical rooms of Syrian refugee families in Lebanon

WFP's Dalili App is innovating humanitarian assistance, digitizing retail sectors, and empowering Syrian refugees in Lebanon

WFP is supporting the rehabilitation of port operations so the flow of vital food supplies can continue

Food prices expected to ‘skyrocket' as country already beset by its worst-ever financial crisis is brought to its knees

Join us as we sit down with a hot brew and ask why tea is so important for Syrian refugees in Lebanon

Lebanese families struggle to access basic needs – including food – as the economic meltdown, paired with hyperinflation and shortages of fuel, electricity and medicines, pushes a growing number of people to the brink and beyond.

With the generous support from the European Union in response to the Syrian Crisis, WFP is providing cash assistance for Syrian refugees as well as vulnerable Lebanese citizens, both to support food security and social cohesion

People tell of slow road to recovery as economic crisis compounds challenges since huge explosion tore through city

WFP looks back on a year of turmoil — and how our work helped to ease the fallout

"What was a wave of hunger is now a tsunami of hunger" — WFP chief David Beasley

The World Food Programme stands shoulder-to-shoulder with farmers as extreme weather continues to drive food insecurity in the MENA region

World Food Programme support is helping 350,000 Lebanese people buy the basics

World Food Programme initiative helps Lebanese and Syrian refugees to earn an income and plant over 1 million trees

There will be little to eat for many Lebanese when they break their fasts this Ramadan – but support from the World Food Programme is delivering hope in the face of crushing price rises

Award-winning donations app reaches milestone in year of record hunger

Annual UN meetings backdropped by unprecedented hunger crisis

Funds are urgently needed to help families inside the country and across the Middle East

World Food Programme’s in-kind support means food parcels for around 300,000 Lebanese people – indispensable assistance amid one of the worst financial crises the world has known