Stories

WFP's Country Director talks about food's key role in building stability and the search for longer-term solutions

World Food Programme partnerships officer Krystyna Kovalenko offers a glimpse of the south of the country, where thousands of people are starving

Hamida Alsanousi set up an NGO to empower women and young people. Today, in partnership with the World Food Programme, they support 20,000 people

Cash assistance paid in advance of floods in the south is a lifeline for devastated villagers

How a resilience-building initiative backed by the World Food Programme and Korea is empowering communities recovering from displacement — and enabling new friendships

In a country beset by crises and food insecurity, the World Food Programme and its partners are empowering people with farming and business skills

Communities explore ways to restore arid landscape with trees and vegetables

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

Every year on 19 August, World Humanitarian Day pays tribute to those who dedicate — and sometimes sacrifice — their lives to humanitarian work. World Food Programme (WFP) staff around the world share what it means to work every day to save and change millions of lives.

A USAID-funded WFP programme is helping people whose lives were disrupted by Cyclone Idai to rebuild their lives

How the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is connecting the dots between emergency response and sustainable livelihoods

Yasser, a Syrian refugee in Iraq recalls his journey from longing to study to becoming a web designer through WFP's EMPACT scheme

How one corner of Africa's Sahel region is safeguarding gains in resilience while ramping up emergency response

Groundnuts and orange-fleshed sweet potatoes help change prospects in a World Food Programme collaboration with FAO

Business skills training from the World Food Programme empowered one woman to become a self-reliant community leader

World Food Programme support helps families grow fresh, organic vegetables, pulses and fruits by harvesting underground H20

Small payments from the World Food Programme are, for some, a doorway into business

Communities are challenging cycles of extreme weather with World Food Programme and Government support

Mary-Ellen McGroarty, World Food Programme country director for Afghanistan, explains why donors - whose help averted famine over the winter - must continue their support

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

How World Food Programme support helped one woman establish a bakery that supports a community

Training in poultry farming from the World Food Programme is improving nutrition one egg at a time

World Food Programme and Food and Agriculture Organization empower communities with agriculture and trade skills

WFP supports production and sales of nutritious snacks in Oruro department

How a World Food Programme resilience project in the Democratic Republic of Congo is helping one family begin anew after their home was burned down