World Food Program USA today announced it is sponsoring the first-of-its-kind event in the United States, the United Nations World Food Programme Innovation Accelerator Bootcamp & Pitch Night.
WFP has launched the next phase of a cinema ad campaign that has generated a 40% increase in brand awareness in North America about its lifesaving work on the frontlines of world hunger.
Hunger Map LIVE brings together streams of publicly available information on food security, nutrition, conflict, weather and macro-economic data to show a holistic picture of the food security situation.
The vouchers – worth $44 – will allow families to purchase much-needed items including rice, oil, lentils, frozen fish or chicken, as well as soap, sanitary pads, buckets, cooking pots, clothes and blankets.
WFP will resume food distributions for the 850,000 people in Sana’a City who have not received food rations from WFP for the last two months.
These policies will deliver funds to people threatened by drought before it reaches catastrophic levels. Collectively, the purchased policies could release a total of $49.5 million across five countries.
The Ebola outbreak in the DRC has been declared a public health emergency of international concern. In the last year, there have been more than 2,600 confirmed cases and more than 1,800 deaths.
Three-hundred farmers each received eight specially-made, airtight, 110-pound bags to protect their grains from insects, rodents, mold and moisture. The results were astonishing.
The additional allocation of $43.8 million is transferred through electronic cards to 358,000 people. The majority of that cash is spent on essentials like food, shelter, health care and education.
With more than 700 rivers, Bangladesh is increasingly seeing the impact of climate change. To help, 5,000 households have now received $53 through an innovative forecast-based financing project.
