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The campaign lays out the gravity of the effect of the climate crisis on future food security, and highlights climate adaptation solutions WFP is implementing across the region. “Climate change is a reality we live every day, it is not as simple as temperatures rising, it is a lot more serious.

When he was aged 10, Xayphone Sengdalalath dreamed of wearing a blue jacket – just like the humanitarians visiting his home village of Thin in the Oudomxay province of  Lao People's Democratic Republic.  “Then don’t drop out of school,” a World Food Programme operative wearing told him, he recalls.

The tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between WFP, the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports (MoEYS), and the Ministry of State Administration (MSA), and encompasses cooperation in policy and strategies, monitoring and evaluation, and the introduction of rice fortification. “This MoU will pave the way for stronger cooperation towards our common goal of improving the hea

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.

The centre is a key structure for the EMPACT (Empowerment in Action) project, WFP’s pioneering digital skills, English and entrepreneurship training programme, which runs across Iraq. Starting in 2017 in Sulaymaniyah governorate as a pilot, EMPACT expanded to Anbar, Baghdad, Duhok, Erbil and Mosul.

Mid-day Meals Scheme also known as Prime Minister Poshan is one of the three main food-based safety nets in India, reaching close to 100 million school aged children with hot-cooked meals.

In the immediate aftermath of the blaze last night, WFP and its national NGO partner Resource Integration Centre (RIC) distributed fortified biscuits to 328 families (approximately 1,600 people) who had lost their homes or cooking equipment.

The application, Food Safety for Mid-day Meals (FoSafMDM), developed by WFP, was unveiled on the 9 April in the state capital Jaipur by Dr. Bulaki Das Kalla, Minister of Education, Government of Rajasthan.

Thanks to Japan’s generosity, WFP will provide emergency food assistance to nearly 700,000 vulnerable women, children and men affected by the crisis inside Ukraine.

  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.