Son Heung-Min, a prominent English Premier League football player for Tottenham Hotspur, has been announced as the United Nations World Food Programme’s (WFP) Global Goodwill Ambassador.
A new United Nations report provides fresh evidence that the world is moving further away from its goal of ending hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030.
WFP has delivered emergency food assistance to 18,200 people affected by the devastating earthquake that struck the Paktika and Khost provinces of Afghanistan.
World Food Program USA today named Pilar Cruz, Corporate Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer at Cargill, and Brandon Rochon, Chief Executive Officer of Kastner and Chief Creative Officer of Fluent Group, to its distinguished Board of Directors.
WFP has rapidly deployed food and logistics equipment to support communities devastated by the June 22 earthquake that struck near the city of Khost.
Our hearts go out to families impacted by the devastating 5.9 magnitude earthquake that struck Afghanistan early this morning. We are closely monitoring the unfolding situation there and stand ready to support WFP’s response.
WFP began distributing food vouchers to pregnant women in Colombo, marking the start of its emergency response in the country as part of the United Nations Humanitarian Needs and Priorities Plan.
Almost one-third of the acutely food insecure South Sudanese the WFP planned to support this year will be left without humanitarian food assistance due to critical funding shortages, heightening the risk of starvation for 1.7 million people.
Representatives Jim McGovern and Tracey Mann introduced H. Res. 1156 commemorating the 20-year anniversary of the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education Program, a unique program leveraging the strength of American farmers to fight childhood hunger worldwide.Â
WFP is working with Uber Technologies Inc, a global mobility and delivery platform, to transport emergency assistance to people in need in urban areas across Ukraine through the use of a custom-built version of Uber’s platform.
