WFP’S 2024 Impact in the DRC
In 2024, WFP reached 7.1 million people including:
- 3.5M people with emergency food and cash assistance
- 1.4M children and mothers with malnutrition treatment and prevention services
- 200K students with school meals and take-home rations
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![WFP beneficiary, Furaha, participates in a literacy class in Kasheke, Democratic Republic of Congo on 1st of March 2021. Furaha received literacy training and is now the president of her village savings group. Through a WFP/FAO joint resilience programme funded by BMZ, she is able to manage the profits she makes from her small shop. This programme supports individuals like Furaha though an integrated package of interventions such as agricultural production support, post-harvest management, literacy training and activities aimed at increasing gender equality and social cohesion.
[As of 30 March] The Democratic Republic of Congo has more people living in hunger than any other country in the world - over 27 million people are food insecure. Escalating conflict remains the key driver of hunger with large swathes of the eastern provinces of Ituri, North and South Kivu and Tanganyika, as well as the central region of the Kasais worst affected. Families have had to sell valuable assets to buy food and many are left with no choice but to skip meals, sometimes, for an entire day. WFP plans to reach 8.7 million people in DRC in 2021 despite an extremely tough operating environment. WFP’s response is mainly taking the form of in-kind food and cash distributions for the most vulnerable, the treatment and prevention of malnutrition among children and women, and hot meals for school children. Resilience building activities now reach 518,000 people in five provinces. WFP resilience-building in fragile environments is also key to stabilisation and peace. Direct support to community farming to boost yields, reduce losses and spur access to markets helps create a pathway to peace. Other key components are providing women with training in literacy, business and leadership skills - and helping to ease ethnic tensions through activities where all ethnic groups work together to create common assets.](https://wfpusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/WF1161357_20210301_COD_FredrikLerneryd_16_Medium_res.jpg)
