This Ramadan, we thought maybe we can FEED more people by hijacking Instagram FEEDs. All you need to do is share an empty post on your Instagram feed with the #EmptyFeed hashtag to help WFP raise awareness of the 690 million hungry people around the world.
You are hearing about all the migration. People have lost their jobs. They have lost their hope. We urgently need to help people with food as well as long-term development that requires more than a piecemeal approach.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has reached an agreement to commence operations in Venezuela with the priority of serving the most vulnerable children.
Millions of families in West and Central Africa are growing more hungry and desperate by the day as food prices skyrocket. Even when food is available, families simply cannot afford it.
This funding from our biggest donor, USAID, comes at a very critical time when funding is scarce and needs are enormous. Rising food insecurity in South Sudan has pushed 60 percent of the population into hunger and poverty.
Mrs. Slaiby rose to prominence in 2010 when she became the first and only immigrant, Arab woman to be crowned Miss USA. Today she is an advocate for a range of humanitarian issues focusing on children, including health care, education and global hunger.
One in three people in the DRC are suffering from acute hunger. This makes the central African country home to the highest number of people in urgent need of food security assistance in the world.
Superstar Abel Tesfaye, better known as The Weeknd, has just given $1 million dollars to the United Nations World Food Programme. “I encourage those who can to please give as well,” he said.
WFP is working around the clock to assist people in need following the latest outbreak of violence in northern Mozambique and aims to reach up to 50,000 people affected by the attacks.
WFP Executive Director David Beasley congratulated leaders of Sudan and one of the country’s rebel groups for agreeing to principles to resolve their conflict including that freedom of religion would be guaranteed to all Sudanese in a civil, democratic federal state.
