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The contribution will support WFP in providing life-saving food assistance and nutrition support to children with acute malnutrition and the most vulnerable families affected by the most severe drought in 40 years in Huíla and Cunene provinces.

WFP began its programmes in Timor-Leste in 1999, providing emergency food assistance to internally displaced persons during the crisis following the referendum for independence from Indonesia.

 Windows shattered by nearby airstrikes. Children crying out from conflict’s psychological blowback. The sense of a hangman’s noose growing ever tighter. These are some of the stories shared by World Food Programme Gaza employees. Like for hundreds of thousands of fellow Palestinians on the Strip, there is no escaping the 10-month-old war.

Hungry, thirsty and weak, more and more Gazans are falling sick, according to a report published this week. At least 90 per cent of children aged under 5 are affected by one or more infectious diseases, with 70 percent having had diarrhoea in the past two weeks, according to analysis from the Global Nutrition Cluster. “An immediate humanitarian ceasefire continues to provide the best cha

 The Middle East is in crisis, with millions forced from their homes, destitute and hungry amid a spreading war that has claimed thousands of lives.

In Cunene province, the contribution will help WFP provide nutritious products to prevent and treat acute malnutrition to some 700 children under the age of two and 3, 200 pregnant and breast-feeding women between January and July 2023.

Joyce Namoe, a programme associate with the World Food Programme in Uganda, joined WFP in 1999. She is passionate about using school feeding as an incentive for parents to keep girls in school. “We’re saving a lot of girls from early marriages, forced marriages,” she says.

School meals have been a critical element of the World Food Programme's (WFP) work for over five decades — helping create healthier, educated children who are better placed to escape the cycle of poverty. But what happens when you combine the approach with a much more recent innovation — cash transfers? A pilot project in Armenia is testing just that, with WFP transferring cash directly to s

On school days, one hundred children gather in front of Bisang Elementary and pour into the three mismatched structures that make up their classrooms: two huts fashioned out of what materials are available nearby and a concrete building on loan from local authorities. “It’s not much, but it’s better than nothing,” says Mary Jean Digan, a teacher here in the mountain Barangay (village) o

 After coronavirus lockdowns and the economic blowback from the war in Ukraine, school meals have rebounded sharply and are today reaching a record number of young students worldwide. Yet even as many governments strengthen their commitments to school meals, some of the poorest are struggling to finance them.