WFP USA and Food For The Poor are pleased to announce a partnership to support WFP’s work in Latin America and the Caribbean.Â
World Food Program USA and Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) are pleased to announce a $4 million partnership in support of the United Nations World Food Programme’s homegrown school meals program in four countries.
Sudan’s war, which has claimed thousands of lives, forced millions from their homes, and sparked economic turmoil across the region, is deepening the hunger crisis warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) as the conflict approaches its one-year mark.
Nearly 55 million people in West and Central Africa will struggle to feed themselves in the June-August 2024 lean season, according to the March 2024 Cadre Harmonisé food security analysis.
WFP has managed to bring desperately needed food and nutrition supplies into Darfur. Yet, the U.N. food agency warns that unless the people of Sudan receive a constant flow of aid via all possible humanitarian corridors, the country’s hunger catastrophe will only worsen.
On behalf of the entire WFP USA community, I want to express my outrage and deep sorrow upon hearing that seven World Central Kitchen humanitarian workers were killed yesterday by an airstrike in Gaza. This is an unacceptable loss.
Carl Skau, WFP Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, speaks at the Security Council Session on the hunger crisis in Sudan and its regional impacts.
Famine is imminent in the northern part of the Gaza Strip and the entire population of Gaza is facing crisis levels of food insecurity or worse, according to the new IPC report released today.
WFP is today warning that Haiti is on the edge of a devastating hunger crisis, with humanitarian operations at risk of grinding to a halt as rampant insecurity limits access to communities and donor funding dries up.
Investing in gender equality and women’s empowerment is an incredibly smart investment to generate economic growth, food security, income opportunities and better lives, particularly in rural areas where most of the world’s poorest live.
