Already, WFP has reached more than 400,000 people with food assistance in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh provinces and continues to expand its operations in support of the Government-led response across the country.
The funding, from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), will also provide cash to 48,000 refugees at Dzaleka Camp and strengthen the capacities of the Malawi Vulnerability Assessment Committee (MVAC), which produces a flagship yearly analysis of food security in the country.
“We are grateful to the U.S.
Next to making sure more and more school meals are available to the most vulnerable children around the world, it is vital to ensure quality standards are met to make the meals as nutritious (and tasty!) as possible.
So the World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have joined forces to develop a set of nutrition guidelines.
These will be adapt
“Eating wholegrain maize makes our bodies strong and healthy,” says 15-year-old Julienne, a student at Kibirizi primary school in Nyamagabe district in southern Rwanda.
Julienne is one of more than 13,500 schoolchildren benefitting from the addition of fortified wholegrain maize in their daily school meals - children who live in the most food insecure regions of the country.
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With this contribution WFP will provide fortified blended foods to malnourished children under 5, pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers, and mothers living with HIV to address moderate acute malnutrition.
WFP in 2014 summarizes the performance and key achievements of the organization. The report is viewable as an interactive online product and may also be downloaded as a PDF file.
Almost 60 additional WFP staff have been deployed to Mozambique, and 45 more are on the way: emergency coordinators, air operations managers and programming, logistics and telecommunications experts.
WFP requires US$140 million for the next three months.
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ROME – Acute food insecurity is set to increase in magnitude and severity in 18 hunger “Hotspots” comprising a total of 22 countries, a new UN early warning report has found.
“This is a race against time – I am worried we might not be able to keep up,” says Shelley Thakral, the World Food Programme’s communications chief in Afghanistan, on a video call from Herat.
“We do not have enough funds and we are asking for US$2.6 billion to scale up as we must in 2022 – that’s about 30 cents of a US dollar per person we need to reach per day.
“WFP is grateful to all parties for bringing opportunities to the Venezuelan children. We can and will do much more for the people of Venezuela”, Executive Director David Beasley said.