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.
In honor of World Youth Skills Day, meet a young activist who fled his home in Myanmar at the age of 16 to seek a new life.
The world had an expanding safety net, with school feeding a growing priority for governments. Then COVID-19 arrived and smashed it all.
One of the bitter realities of our work is that women and girls are more likely than men and boys to suffer from hunger. So everywhere we work, closing the hunger gender gap is one of our biggest priorities.
We’re doing everything we can to reach people with the most acute needs through emergency rapid response teams.
It might seem futuristic, but WFP’s “PLUS” software designs a “menu” of school meals that are healthier, up to 20% cheaper, and use as much as 70% locally-sourced ingredients.
Did you know that more than 50% of the world’s farm workers are women? Or that 62 million school-aged girls don’t go to class? See how stats like these impact women’s hunger.
The key to ending malnutrition isn’t a mystery, nor does it require any high-tech innovation. It starts with the first 1,000 days of a child’s life. And it starts with the mother.
We need to remind the world of the exponential power of investing in adolescent girls. “If this was the stock market, you’d have investors flocking,” says one doctor.
Imagine cooking a meal without running water, electricity or even a countertop. Most of us wouldn’t know where to begin. And yet, millions of women around the world do it every day. See 10 of their kitchens.
