Location: Africa
We are seeing a catastrophe unfold before our very eyes. Famine – driven by conflict, and fueled by climate shocks and the COVID-19 hunger pandemic – is knocking on the door for millions of families.
More than 668,000 people, mainly women and children, were forced to flee their homes without any belongings due to the ongoing crisis. Without the humanitarian community, these people would not be able to meet their basic needs.
Today's $8 million contribution from the United States Government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), will help maintain critical food assistance to refugees living in Nduta, Mtendeli and Nyarugusu camps in north-western Tanzania.
Without urgent access to the care they need, severely malnourished children are at imminent risk of death. We must be able to safely reach all children, women and girls in need as soon as possible, particularly in the areas most affected by recent violence.
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.
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.
This International Women’s Day, WFP USA is proud to announce a new grantee for the Catherine Bertini Trust Fund for Girls’ Education: Girls Gotta Run Foundation, Inc.
Girls Gotta Run in Ethiopia has an innovative model of using sports to build girls’ confidence and guide them in setting and obtaining goals - critical skills for girls to succeed in school and beyond.
In the weeks after the strongest storm to ever hit the country, WFP’s emergency assistance kick-started the recovery of 1.8 million people. But many others, who are still struggling today, face a bleak and uncertain future.
We're doing everything we can to reach people with the most acute needs through emergency rapid response teams.
The storm hit Mozambique at one of the worst possible times: January to March is the peak lean season - when people struggle the most to find food.
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.