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The impact of the funding shortfalls on refugee families is compounded by COVID-19 lockdowns and measures to contain the pandemic’s spread, which had already reduced the availability of food in markets in refugee camps and wrecked many refugees’ hopes of helping to support their families through casual labour and small businesses. “The pandemic has been devastating for everyone, but for refugee

There are more than 40,000 children in schools and nurseries in the refugee camps in Tindouf, south-west Algeria. This donation will enable WFP to provide each child attending schools and nurseries with a highly nutritious mid-morning snack. Children will receive every school day nutritious gofio porridge made from locally produced flour, dried skimmed milk, vitamin-enriched oil and sugar.

Food fortification is the addition of important micronutrients to foods to enhance its nutritional value safely and cost-effectively.

“Thanks to the excellent support and coordination from Chin State and authorities at all levels, we have successfully reached Paletwa once again in spite of security risks and poor road conditions,” said Stephen Anderson, WFP’s Country Director in Myanmar.

Chad is witnessing a new wave of refugees crossing the border following the military clashes that erupted in neigbouring Sudan on 15 April. The humanitarian needs are growing in Chad and food needs to be urgently pre-positioned before the rainy season makes access impossible.

In Ukraine, it’s the scale of things that strikes one the most – the scale of the challenge, of the threat, of the country itself. “We spend days on the move every month,” says Matthew Hollingworth, the World Food Programme (WFP) Representative and Country Director in Ukraine. “And I mean that literally – days travelling, on the road.

It has been eight years since armed fighters chased Neema Georgine and her family from their farm in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).