Hunger is terrible, but especially cruel to children. And it’s a daily reality for millions of them – a scale that’s difficult for most of us to imagine.
It’s remarkable what young ones can do with so little – especially when they’re living on the frontlines of war and hunger.
“On May 8, 2018, I gave birth to my last-born child, and the next day, on May 9, my husband was killed,” says Deborah. Her and her children have seen more than their share of hardship, including hunger.
When violence broke out in Roda’s hometown of Gumuruk, the local market was stripped down with her teashop in tow. In one day, Roda lost all the investment that she had worked so hard to build over a year.
New findings indicate the food crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo shows little sign of abating and could worsen in the coming months without scaled-up assistance.
WFP is scaling up support for people impacted by the third consecutive year of record floods that are battering South Sudan.
Conflict is a vicious force, and one that’s pushed innocent civilians to the most extreme levels of hunger imaginable. Nearly all of them live in the same places.
As climate talks get underway in Glasgow, families in southern Madagascar, where climate is driving famine-like conditions, brace themselves for yet another harsh year ahead.
Hundreds of thousands of lives are at risk in southern Madagascar, the only place in the world right now where catastrophic levels of hunger are being driven by climate not conflict.
There was a time when Immaculée Mukarusanga relied on farming just to feed her two teenage daughters. Now, thanks to the Farm to Market Alliance, she grows enough beans, corn and potatoes to sell at her local markets and could afford a cow.
