Celebrating Ramadan in Yemen: “the Graveyard for the Living”
April 11, 2021
Seven incredible women share their experiences of extreme hardship during Ramadan in war-torn Yemen.
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On National Siblings Day, Meet Khamisa: Refugee and Provider for Her Family
April 9, 2021
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.
After One Year of COVID-19, What Lessons Have We Learned About Hunger?
April 2, 2021
Make no mistake: COVID-19 has made the hungry hungrier and the poor poorer. But how? What does the next year hold? Chase Sova, WFP USA senior director of public policy and thought leadership, takes a look back at the impact of COVID-19 on global food security and tells you what you need to know.
Running Toward a Brighter Future: Girls Going the Distance for Education and Empowerment
March 8, 2021
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.
Sawyeddollah Became a Refugee at 16. He Tells His Story on World Youth Skills Day.
March 5, 2021
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 Great Setback: How Coronavirus Sent Schoolchildren Home Hungry
March 3, 2021
The world had an expanding safety net, with school feeding a growing priority for governments. Then COVID-19 arrived and smashed it all.
Women Are the Victims of – and Part of the Solution to – Hunger
March 3, 2021
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.
This Is How We Reach Families Threatened by Famine in South Sudan
March 2, 2021
We’re doing everything we can to reach people with the most acute needs through emergency rapid response teams.
This New Online Tool Creates Nourishing, Locally-Sourced School Meals in Minutes
March 1, 2021
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.
6 Things You May Not Know About Women, Girls & Hunger
March 1, 2021
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.
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