Armenia

Crisis From Conflict

Armenia is affected by conflict and displacement. WFP is on the ground delivering food to vulnerable families. Help send food to Armenia and other countries.
WFP/Alessandro Moretti/2020/Armenia
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Hunger in Armenia

Armenia was already fighting hunger, but with the recent conflict displacing over tens of thousands of people, the need is greater than ever.

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Population: 3 million people.
Background: Armenia gained its independence in 1991 after the Soviet Union collapsed.
Geography & Climate: Armenia is a landlocked country between Europe and Asia, bordered by Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran and Türkiye. It is a highland mountainous region with a dry climate.
Economy: Since independence, Armenia’s economy has been growing slowly, though it took devastating hits from the 2009 recession and in 2020 from COVID-19 and conflict.

Causes of Hunger

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WFP’s Work in Armenia

WFP has worked in Armenia since 1993. Through conflict and economic shocks, we’ve have provided food for vulnerable people. Now, WFP is ramping up to provide 21,000 meals to people displaced by the recent conflict.
2019–20 coronavirus pandemic
WFP Armenia is fortunate and proud to receive MSUs (Mobile Storage Units) to Armenia, which supposed to be used to provide humanitarian goods to the people. Thanks to WFP corporate funding, WFP Armenia has procured and transferred MSUs to Armenia to be prepared and answer to any type of emergency. MSUs will play a critical role during COVID19 response. One of the MSUs will be given to our partner ICRC.

In the Photo (from left to right): Tigran Mshetsyan (WFP Logistics Business Support Assistant) and Yessai Nikoyan (Head of Supply Chain), assisting the offloading of  the Mobile Storage Units in Yerevan.

Photo: WFP/Alessandro Moretti
Food and Cash Transfers
WFP provides direct food and cash assistance to vulnerable people in Armenia. In 2022, we delivered food to over 34,000 people.
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WFP staff load up mobile storage units.
Emergency Relief
We provided food assistance to the most vulnerable people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and now to people displaced by recent conflict.
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WFP provides hot soup and fortified bread in two-thirds of Armenia's schools.
School Meals
WFP has been implementing school meals since 2010. In 2022, we provided over 160,000 school meals and snacks to children in Armenia.
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WFP Responds to Humanitarian Crisis as Thousands of People Flee Into Armenia