On a rainy winter’s day, 12-year-old Issa walks to school in Hama, Syria in a pair of old sneakers and a thin cotton sweater. This is all he has to fend off the weather, but even on the coldest days, nothing can keep him home from school.
Today, Issa has already been awake since before dawn. He had to queue at a local bakery to collect fresh bread for his family.
WFP staff at the scene report that the coastal town of Mananjary has been completely devastated. Houses have been swept away by the violent winds and access is now only possible by air. Manakara, some 100 km to the south, is also inaccessible by road.
"Everything was shaking. It felt like claws were pulling the roof.
Syrians today face an unprecedented hunger crisis as the prices of basic foods reach levels unseen even at the height of the nine-year conflict and millions of people are pushed deeper into poverty the United Nations World Food Programme says, on the eve of a donors pledging conference for Syria.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is, alongside Afghanistan, Yemen and Syria, among the World Food Programme’s biggest emergencies – reeling from decades of conflict and climate change that continue to reduce people’s access to the most basic foods, increasing hunger to unprecedented levels.
As WFP grapples with a global funding crisis and growing humanitarian needs, the horrific stories
“Afghanistan has faced an unprecedented humanitarian crisis compounded by climate change and intense droughts, floods, and earthquakes”, wrote ADB in the announcement of their latest contribution.
The World Food Programme (WFP) is supporting people left destitute after a fire ripped through Kutupalong — the world’s biggest refugee camp — in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
Thousands were left desperately searching for family members, having lost their homes and all their possessions. Eleven people were killed and 300 are missing, while 360 people are being treated for severe injuri
The UN World Food Programme warns that without urgent funding, one of the world’s fastest-growing displacement crises in northern Mozambique risks becoming a hunger emergency as families continue to flee insurgent violence. The displacement has left at least 730,000 people in Cabo Delgado with no access to their lands and no means of earning a living.
Sporting his iconic pirate hat, 58-year-old tour guide Coris Dember – better known as Captain Harris to his fans – has long been a colorful fixture among local residents and foreign visitors in tiny Union Island where he lives.“I wanted to be a pirate so the guests could have a laugh,” says Dember of his boat tours around his native St Vincent and the Grenadines - themed after the swashbuckl
The Republic of Moldova, a small landlocked country bordering Romania to the west and Ukraine to the east, is one of the poorest countries in Eastern Europe.
In recent years, leveraging national social protection systems as a crucial component of strategies aimed at responding to covariate shocks is becoming increasingly popular with governments and international partners. The aim is to safeguard livelihoods, ensure food security, and enhance overall resilience, enabling vulnerable people to adapt and cope with the impacts of hazards.
