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When Olexander and Liubov’s home in Kharkiv came under heavy shelling, they grabbed their two boys and rushed to the basement where they spent the entire night. “We came out of the basement in the morning,” says Liubov.

Abdallah Nassir, Abdallah Yacoub, Abakar, Hissein, Kaltouma, Sima and Hannan are among the 20,000 Sudanese refugees living in Djabal camp, near Goz Beida, Chad.

 The village of Grande Rivière du Nord owes its name to the stream that gently splits it into two shores. But in the last two years, not much water has fallen from the sky, and most harvests were lost.

Funding shortfalls already forced WFP to cut its food vouchers from US$ 12 to US$ 10 per person per month, in March this year. “We are appealing for urgent support so that we can restore rations to the full amount as soon as possible.

During my two days here, I had the chance to engage with people benefitting from WFP programmes including the Government-led National Poverty Targeting Programme.

Los Angeles, CA (October 7, 2021) - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and the world’s largest humanitarian organization fighting global hunger, today announced that multi-platinum and diamond certified global superstar The Weeknd has been named a Global Goodwill Ambassador.

The El Niño impact is exacerbating the devastating effects of the climate crisis in Malawi. The country is still suffering from the impacts of tropical storms and cyclones in 2022 and 2023 and the compounded effect is to push up to 40 percent of Malawi’s population into hunger, threatening both lives and livelihoods.

 Surrounded by seemingly endless fields of corn, Heydi Ajú and her husband Alvaro are working their neatly rowed plot of land in central Guatemala.

At a time of unprecedented development needs, Jabeur’s visit highlights Egypt’s effective development models in education, rural development and economic empowerment in the face of growing global challenges. “From fighting hunger and food insecurity to combatting the effects of climate change to supporting vulnerable communities like refugees, WFP’s work is more critical than ever.