Special Interest: Emergency Response
The United Nations is warning of a potential “humanitarian catastrophe” in the last major rebel stronghold in the Syrian civil war involving tens of thousands of civilians.
In March 2018, a school meals program was restarted inside Yemen to give children new hope within the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
Since 2017, school meals have given Rohingya children a critical source of nutrition and a life-changing opportunity to continue their education after fleeing violence.
Since 2014, school meals inside Syria have restored a sense of normalcy for hundreds of thousands of children trapped by war.
Every year on August 19th, the world pays tribute to aid workers who risk their lives in humanitarian service. Meet five humanitarians with the World Food Programme (WFP) who are fighting to make the world a better place. 
In July 2018, a World Food Programme (WFP) communications team found their way inside Yemen to document the hunger crisis in areas that rarely see the light of day.
Halfway through the year, an alarming number of families have newly fled their homes for safety, making the World Food Programme’s (WFP) efforts to deliver food and nutrition assistance a matter of life and death.
Halfway through the year, a nonstop effort is underway to protect hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees from the worst of the monsoon season.
Halfway through the year, the world’s youngest country turns seven as more than seven million of its people brace for the worst of the hunger season.
This past May, the U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution officially recognizing the link between conflict and hunger for the first time
Learn how WFP is delivering hope to families facing famine—and how one foundation of aviation experts is helping make this work possible.
Escalating violence in southern Syria continues to displace families from their homes.