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.
What does it take to operate the world’s largest hunger relief effort? 75,000 shipping containers, 17,000 employees, 5,600 trucks, 92 aircraft and 20 ships. This is how we #endhunger.
The Mt. Lebanon famine killed 200,000 people between 1915 and 1918. The situation in Syria today looks eerily similar.
For millions of girls around the world, going to school is anything but guaranteed. These two projects are making education a reality for hundreds of them.
Three UN agencies warn that 61% of the population – the highest rate ever – is projected to face crisis levels of food insecurity or worse by the end of July.
Recently returned from India, WFP Development Director Torrey Shallcross recalls her meaningful experience visiting a school that receives WFP meals.
Hungry children do not build prosperous economies or peaceful societies. School meals represent one of the most affordable and effective investments we can ever make in humanity.
Children form the future human capital of a nation, and school feeding programs provide a key support in building the foundations.
A look at what 2018 meant for the World Food Programme (WFP) and the millions of people it serves.
In March 2018, a school meals program was restarted inside Yemen to give children new hope within the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
