The BBC’s Jeremy Bowen has this report on the World Food Programme (WFP) and its efforts to reach families in Syria left hungry and homeless because of the ongoing violence.
With few buildings left untouched by the fighting in West Aleppo, WFP staff have transformed the basement of a local mosque into a vast warehouse and distribution center with a kitchen that can produce as many as 48,000 meals in a single day.
Watch this video to learn more about how WFP is reaching more than 750,000 people in West Aleppo each month alone:
Divided between government and rebel halves for nearly two years, the historic Syrian city of Aleppo has suffered devastation on a massive scale. The BBC’s Jeremy Bowen is the first western journalist to enter the government-held zone by road from Damascus. He reports on West Aleppo’s civilians’ struggle to survive.
