Uganda
April 22, 2025
With improved security, Uganda is a relatively stable country in East Africa that takes in over a million refugees from its neighbors. However, poverty and food insecurity are still widespread.
WFP News
Location: Uganda
Empowering Women and Girls is Crucial to Ensure Sustainable Food Security in the Aftermath of COVID-19, say UN Food Agency Heads on International Women’s Day
March 8, 2021
Women and girls make up half of our global community – It’s time they were included in leadership positions at every level and integrated in all spheres and stages of pandemic response and recovery.
Hunger Could Double in East Africa and the Horn in Months as Coronavirus Spreads
May 19, 2020
The socio-economic impact of coronavirus in East Africa and the Horn could kill more people than the pandemic itself.
These Girls Started out Orphans or in Urban Slums. Now They’re Becoming Community Leaders.
March 8, 2020
See how two projects in Tanzania and Uganda are changing the lives of hundreds of young girls who wouldn’t have been able to go to school without them.
World Food Program USA Announces Spring 2020 Grantees for the Catherine Bertini Trust Fund
March 8, 2020
Women and girls make up a majority of the world’s hungry people, largely as a result of unequal access to education. These two initiatives are changing that tradition.
Locusts in East Africa: A Race Against Time
February 25, 2020
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.
World Humanitarian Day 2018: Celebrate Heroes
August 19, 2018
Every year on August 19th, the world pays tribute to aid workers who risk their lives in humanitarian service. Meet five humanitarians with the World Food Programme (WFP) who are fighting to make the world a better place.
Lifting Lives in Uganda With The Promise of a School Meal
May 21, 2018
Josephine Nakwang was one of more than 100,000 boys and girls in 300 schools across the Karamoja region of Uganda who received school meals from
24 Hours on the Border of War
May 25, 2017
As conflict rages in neighboring South Sudan, Uganda’s leaders are putting food and land at the center of their efforts to welcome refugees seeking safety. Hear a firsthand account of how the World Food Programme (WFP) is working on the front lines of hunger to help those impacted by war and famine.
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