As the COVID-19 spreads, innovation and technology is needed more to reach people in need. Bernhard Kowatsch, head of WFP’s Innovation Accelerator, explains how the program is working to support WFP’s pandemic response.
Coronavirus has exacerbated the lives of refugees who’ve been living in the Sahara Desert for the past 45 years. Here’s our appeal, and how we plan to help.
The Government of Ethiopia and WFP opened a new hub inside Addis Ababa’s Bole International Airport from which COVID-19 supplies, equipment and humanitarian workers will be transported by air across Ethiopia and Africa.
The first United Nations “Solidarity Flight” is scheduled to leave Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, today – from there, the aircraft will transport the vital medical cargo to all countries in Africa, where supplies are desperately needed to contain the spread of COVID-19.
The United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) in Panama has already airlifted more than eight tons of supplies, including COVID-19 kits, to 24 countries.
WFP is gearing up to ensure that children across the global still have access to school meals even while schools are closed due to Coronavirus.
This women’s history month, Rohingya women share their stories of feeding their families under the most extreme conditions imaginable. How will history remember them?
Through the program, each family member receives $22 per month, and studies show that the 1.7 million refugees mostly spend it on rent, utilities, food and other household needs.
Women and girls make up a majority of the world’s hungry people, largely as a result of unequal access to education. These two initiatives are changing that tradition.
Preliminary results of a Harvard University analysis show that globally, every dollar spent on a school meals program can bring returns of as much as $20.
