Teachers offer guidance, friendship, socialization – and in the most difficult places, even structure, comfort and food. Teachers go above and beyond – especially in countries where WFP works.
Meet Nenad Grkovic, a former United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) beneficiary during a civil war who later dedicated his career to saving and changing lives through innovative logistics solutions.
We have witnessed heartbreaking scenes of severely malnourished children and starving families. We need the money and resources now to help the people of Madagascar.
Refugees are rigging up simple hydroponic production units using only local materials to grow fresh grass for their goats. It’s just one way WFP’s helps people in conflict zones.
Global hunger isn’t about a lack of food. There’s enough to feed all of us. Unfortunately, one third of all the food produced for humans never actually gets eaten.
People have scattered in many different directions since the recent attacks in Palma, Cabo Delgado Province. They’ve had to flee leaving behind all their belongings and families have been separated.
Somalia is once again on the brink of famine: A severe drought, rising food prices and violence has pushed the country to the edge.
Millions of families in West and Central Africa are growing more hungry and desperate by the day as food prices skyrocket. Even when food is available, families simply cannot afford it.
This funding from our biggest donor, USAID, comes at a very critical time when funding is scarce and needs are enormous. Rising food insecurity in South Sudan has pushed 60 percent of the population into hunger and poverty.
Every month Khamisa, who wants to become a doctor, walks from the family shelter to the U.N. World Food Programme distribution centre in Alagaya Camp, White Nile State to collect food for her parents and four siblings. She is one of the 387,000 refugees across Sudan that WFP supported in the first half of 2019. “Home is close by, but it feels so long ago,” Khamisa says.
