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.
For the second year in a row, Central America has suffered a devastating drought that has pushed tens of thousands of people into hunger. Learn how WFP is responding.
A historic drought is sweeping Ethiopia and more than 10 million people have been pushed into hunger. How will they cope?
The World Press Photo Contest just announced its selections today for this year’s best news photos. The winning photograph depicts a man on the Serbian border passing an infant through a razor-wire fence—a brief, but illumainting image of Europe’s ongoing refugee crisis. “I could feel the drama, the hardship, and also the hope,” Francis Kohn, a photo director at Agence […]
For years, Syrian families have lived their lives in limbo, not knowing when they can return home or what kind of future awaits their children. One thing they should not have to worry about is where they will find their next meal.
WFP USA Board members Dan Glickman and Hunter Biden, along with CEO Rick Leach, explain why world leaders must prioritize humanitarian food assistance for Syrian refugees.
Haiti is ranked sixth on the list of countries most vulnerable to climate change. Here are five measures WFP is taking to be prepared with an immediate response in case of future disasters.
We speak with Dina el-Kassaby, WFP's Communications Officer based in Cairo, about how the conflict in Syria has affected families throughout the region.
Violence across the country has made an already dangerously and desperately hungry nation that much hungrier.
The United Nations World Food Programme’s emergency response to the Syria crisis is its largest and most complex operation to date.
When it comes to hunger and poverty, climate change isn’t one problem—it’s many problems.
Welcome to WFP’s recipe series exploring the culinary treasures and cooking abilities of refugees who benefit from the agency’s cash and vouchers program, an initiative that allows families to buy fresh, local ingredients to cook traditional dishes. Thirty-six-year-old Priscilla and her husband, Wellington, are subsistence farmers in the village of Sasula in central Zimbabwe. They live with Priscilla’s 92-year-old grandmother, her sister and […]
This Thanksgiving, we’re celebrating how the Greatest Generation tackled global hunger in the autumn of 1947. That year, concerned citizens across the U.S. started the tradition of setting aside a plate at their Thanksgiving tables for a “silent guest,” one of the world’s hungry.