World Food Program USA announced today that Go Laadli and MAIA are the newest grantees of the Catherine Bertini Trust Fund for Girls’ Education.
The world is at risk of yet another year of record hunger as the global food crisis continues to drive yet more people into worsening levels of severe hunger, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).
The latest Hunger Hotspots report calls for urgent humanitarian action to save lives and prevent famine in hotspot countries where severe hunger is expected to worsen from October 2022 to January 2023.
WFP will use the Church’s funds to provide food and other critical assistance to 1.6 million of the most vulnerable people in nine countries including Afghanistan, Haiti and South Sudan. Â
WFP is scaling up its emergency response in Pakistan to reach 1.9 million people affected by this year’s monsoon floods. Recovery and resilience support is now a top priority.
A WFP-charted vessel departed today from the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Yuznhy (Pivdennyi) with wheat grain destined for the agency’s humanitarian response in Yemen.
Following the Government of Pakistan’s request for support, the U.N. World Food Programme is rapidly expanding its food assistance to 500K people.
Since the start of the year, 9 million more people have slipped into severe hunger across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia – leaving 22 million people struggling to find enough food to eat.
The first shipment of Ukrainian wheat grain bound for WFP’s humanitarian response left Ukraine’s Yuzhny port yesterday, marking another important milestone in getting Ukrainian grain back into global markets.
Cargill has made a $10 million grant to World Food Program USA in support of WFP’s response to the global hunger crisis, escalated by the collateral impact of the Ukrainian war.
