Celebrating Ramadan in Yemen: “the Graveyard for the Living”
April 11, 2021
Seven incredible women share their experiences of extreme hardship during Ramadan in war-torn Yemen.
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Topic: Women
On National Siblings Day, Meet Khamisa: Refugee and Provider for Her Family
April 9, 2021
Every month Khamisa, who wants to become a doctor, walks from the family shelter to the U.N. World Food Programme distribution centre in Alagaya Camp, White Nile State to collect food for her parents and four siblings. She is one of the 387,000 refugees across Sudan that WFP supported in the first half of 2019. “Home is close by, but it feels so long ago,” Khamisa says.
WFP Begins Building a Global Coalition to Support School Feeding Worldwide
March 12, 2021
In the last year, COVID-19 has left 370 million children without school meals. WFP has begun building a school feeding coalition to find sustainable and innovative funding sources for school feeding programs, strengthen evidence and guidance to improve said programs and bring together multiple sectors to achieve better outcomes for school children globally.
WFP Chief Appeals for Peace as Yemen Teeters on Edge of Famine
March 10, 2021
Over half of the people in Yemen are facing acute food shortages with millions knocking on the door of famine. We have the vaccine to save their lives – it’s food, and all we need is the funding.
Empowering Women and Girls is Crucial to Ensure Sustainable Food Security in the Aftermath of COVID-19, say UN Food Agency Heads on International Women’s Day
March 8, 2021
Women and girls make up half of our global community – It’s time they were included in leadership positions at every level and integrated in all spheres and stages of pandemic response and recovery.
Running Toward a Brighter Future: Girls Going the Distance for Education and Empowerment
March 8, 2021
This International Women’s Day, WFP USA is proud to announce a new grantee for the Catherine Bertini Trust Fund for Girls’ Education: Girls Gotta Run Foundation, Inc.
World Food Program USA Announces Spring 2021 Grantee of the Catherine Bertini Trust Fund
March 8, 2021
Girls Gotta Run in Ethiopia has an innovative model of using sports to build girls’ confidence and guide them in setting and obtaining goals – critical skills for girls to succeed in school and beyond.
Women Are the Victims of – and Part of the Solution to – Hunger
March 3, 2021
One of the bitter realities of our work is that women and girls are more likely than men and boys to suffer from hunger. So everywhere we work, closing the hunger gender gap is one of our biggest priorities.
During the Pandemic, WFP Is Standing up to the Scourge of Childhood Hunger: By Focusing on Moms
February 3, 2021
The key to ending malnutrition isn’t a mystery, nor does it require any high-tech innovation. It starts with the first 1,000 days of a child’s life. And it starts with the mother.
17M Underage Girls Become Mothers Every Year and They Are So Hard to Reach
February 1, 2021
We need to remind the world of the exponential power of investing in adolescent girls. “If this was the stock market, you’d have investors flocking,” says one doctor.
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