For International Literacy Day, meet Furaha: a farmer in the DRC who created a new life for her family thanks to literacy training through the WFP and FAO.
WFP has started providing emergency food rations to people displaced from their homes in Goma by the sudden eruption of Nyiragongo volcano.
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.
One in three people in the DRC are suffering from acute hunger. This makes the central African country home to the highest number of people in urgent need of food security assistance in the world.
Conflict, displacement and disease have taken a devastating toll on the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), pushing millions into hunger and desperation.
WFP never abandons hope. We’re applying it in spades to roll back one of the most severe hunger catastrophes in our six decades of existence.
Many people don’t realize the strong link between hunger and AIDS, but it is one of the major reasons why I became president and CEO of World Food Program USA.
We need another $172 million over the next six months to keep millions of kids and families from starving in the face of violent conflict and displacement.
The locust upsurge affecting East Africa is a graphic and shocking reminder of this region’s vulnerability. Yet as ancient as this scourge is, its scale today is unprecedented in modern times.
The sheer scale and complexity of the challenges in Africa and other regions will stretch the resources and capacity of WFP and other agencies to the limit.
