
What’s a Safety Net?
Safety nets protect poor and vulnerable people during times of sudden crisis. Heather Hanson, WFP USA VP of public policy, and David Lauck, AVP for hunger and livelihoods at Save the Children, discuss.

Safety nets protect poor and vulnerable people during times of sudden crisis. Heather Hanson, WFP USA VP of public policy, and David Lauck, AVP for hunger and livelihoods at Save the Children, discuss.

More recently, Bank of America provided an additional $200,000 from the Emergency Response Fund to help deliver school meals to children affected by emergencies worldwide.

Allan Jury, VP of public policy at WFP USA, explains why food and water are inseparably linked in the fight to end global hunger.

How do you teach young students in the U.S. about the chronic hunger that plagues their peers around the world? Here’s one way.

As part of The Catherine Bertini Trust Fund for Girls’ Education, WFP USA is supporting the organization’s Kitenga Village Project in Tanzania. The heart of the project is the Kitenga School for Girls, which is slated to open in January 2015.

Millions of parents across the U.S. are getting ready for the annual back-to-school shopping season.

“Sending my children to a school, which provides one meal a day, is a great relief for me,” says Ti Marie.