World Food Program USA launches Verified Humanitarian, a social media campaign aimed at activating Americans to join the global movement to end hunger.
World Food Program USA today named Jon Banner, Executive Vice President and Global Chief Impact Officer at McDonald’s Corporation, to our Board of Directors.
World Food Program USA announced today that Go Laadli and MAIA are the newest grantees of the Catherine Bertini Trust Fund for Girls’ Education.
The world is at risk of yet another year of record hunger as the global food crisis continues to drive yet more people into worsening levels of severe hunger, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).
WFP will use the Church’s funds to provide food and other critical assistance to 1.6 million of the most vulnerable people in nine countries including Afghanistan, Haiti and South Sudan. Â
WFP is scaling up its emergency response in Pakistan to reach 1.9 million people affected by this year’s monsoon floods. Recovery and resilience support is now a top priority.
A WFP-charted vessel departed today from the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Yuznhy (Pivdennyi) with wheat grain destined for the agency’s humanitarian response in Yemen.
Since the start of the year, 9 million more people have slipped into severe hunger across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia – leaving 22 million people struggling to find enough food to eat.
The first shipment of Ukrainian wheat grain bound for WFP’s humanitarian response left Ukraine’s Yuzhny port yesterday, marking another important milestone in getting Ukrainian grain back into global markets.
Cargill has made a $10 million grant to World Food Program USA in support of WFP’s response to the global hunger crisis, escalated by the collateral impact of the Ukrainian war.
