Programs: Emergencies
Hunger is often the first emergency when catastrophe strikes. That’s why the United Nations World Food Programme is among the first humanitarian organizations on the ground to help hungry families in crisis.
Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo has pushed one in four people into severe hunger—children are especially vulnerable.
The monsoon season sets new challenges for people living in camps on the Bangladesh border.
Without sustained humanitarian assistance and access to people in need, U.N. agencies say hunger could reach its highest level ever.
Learn how the World Food Programme (WFP) is responding when the conditions of war are changing almost every day.
Since 2013, 400,000 people have been trapped in a besieged area of Syria without reliable access to food and medicine.
For 239 days, WFP has employed every means of food delivery available, from airdrops and barges up the Nile to convoys of trucks, all transporting lifesaving food.
We talk to an aid worker who’s been on the ground in Cox's Bazar since the beginning of the Rohingya crisis.
Four years of conflict in South Sudan has plunged millions of people into hunger—and time is running out.
There isn't enough food — for refugees, for vulnerable families in conflict zones and for people struggling on the brink of famine.
The arrival of four mobile cranes in Hodeidah Port will allow the World Food Programme (WFP) to better deliver more food and humanitarian supplies to hungry families in need.
How photographs help bring the plight of the Rohingya refugees to light