WFP has a funding gap of US$579 million to deliver life-saving food assistance and livelihood support activities to 12 million people in Ethiopia over the next six months.
After facing successive crises in the last few years, people in the Caribbean are continuing to feel the impact of price increases on their purchasing power, while coping with the underlying threat of natural hazards in the region.
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) launched the Caribbean Food Security and Livelihoods Survey to
A funding crunch is forcing the World Food Programme to scale back food assistance in Yemen, reducing the rations of 8 million people to barely half the daily food minimum basket that is standard for the organization. This comes at the worst possible time for the 13 million people in the country who depend on WFP’s food assistance to survive.
The expanded assistance provided by WFP and its humanitarian partners to flood-affected families will include food relief, malnutrition prevention and livelihoods support. WFP will also give logistics support for the response.
Regional Food Security and Nutrition Context 2021
In 2021, Western Africa faced unprecedented challenges, including protracted conflicts, health emergencies, climatic shocks, and economic problems.
WFP supported 15.5 million food insecure people in 12 countries Southern Africa in 2021. This factsheet outlines WFP’s key achievements in numbers in providing lifesaving assistance in the region in 2021.
Who has inspired you most in your life?
That’s a difficult question! There are a lot of senior people in WFP who I respect, and I aspire to be like…so I would say Ashraf, my supervisor in my first job back in Pakistan, in the bread and cake-making industry.
Who has inspired you most in your life?
Saying that my parents are my biggest source of inspiration may sound cliché and repetitive, but in reality, they are the moulders of my life. Growing up as a low-class family was a struggle for most Mozambicans during my childhood. But for my parents the living conditions were not an obstacle.