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WFP in numbers

152 Million people estimated to have received assistance from WFP in 2023
5K trucks 132 aircraft and 20 ships can be on the go on any given day
21.4 million children estimated to have received nutritious meals, school snacks or take-home rations in 2023

On 21 March 2019, after the passage of Cyclone Idai, the WFP helicopter reaches Guaraguara, Mozambique with a load of High Energy Biscuits. WFP/Deborah Nguyen

Emergencies

Eustaquia from the Uru Murato Indigenous community. WFP assisted vulnerable people in Oruro, La Paz and Cochabamba through Food Assistance for Assets programmes in Bolivia. WFP/Morelia Eróstegui

Cash-based transfers

Kaka Marabou writing her name on the school blackboard in Yakoua, Lake Chad. Refugees, displaced people and other poor communities in the Lake Chad basin are dependent on humanitarian assistance for survival and access to basic education is also limited. WFP/Giulio d'Adamo

Gender equality

Yemen. Sultan's mother feeds him a nutritious peanut paste at home. He suffers from moderate acute malnutrition. Thanks to the supplementary food he is receiving from WFP, Sultan has started to gain weight and has more energy than before. But he still needs treatment. His family also receive WFP food assistance - flour, dried beans, oil, sugar and salt. WFP/Mohammed Awadh

Nutrition

At Gonaives, Haiti, a schoolgirl is receiving daily hot meals thanks to WFP school feeding programme: it's considered the largest food safety net in the country. Every school day, WFP delivers hot meals to close to 300,000 children each day across more than 1,000 schools, mainly public, throughout the country. WFP/Antoine Vallas

School based programmes

Engineer supervising the rehabilitation of one of the bakeries in Sakhour area, considered one of the largest in Aleppo, Syria. When this bakery will be put into production, it will be able to provide 12 MT of bread - enough to feed approximately 60,000 people with fresh bread. WFP/Hussam Al Saleh

Social Protection

The heavy monsoon rains flooded the northern and northeastern districts of Bangladesh in July 2020. Floodwater has inundated Sayema's house making it very difficult to live a normal life. She and her family suffer from food shortages. The World Food Programme offers cash assistance to almost 6000 families in Kurigram who are most vulnerable and in need of help. WFP/Mehedi Rahman

Climate action

During the covid-19 pandemic, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, WFP engaged with women from the host community and Rohingya refugees through its livelihood program to make masks that were distributed by local government and humanitarian agencies giving them a monthly stipend, marketable job training and financial literacy, and a scholarship to start a business. WFP/Nalifa Mehelin

Resilience building

In Kibera, Kenya, WFP has implemented Hydroponic Farming at Olympic Primary School, with great participation of students and the local community. WFP/Martin Karimi

Innovation

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