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“Our children are more important than us,” says Safiah, who often skips meals so her children can eat. “I do not feel hungry when my children have their meal … if they are full, I feel full, and if they get sick, I get sick, too.” In the summer of 2020, Safiah watched in agony as her son, Sultan, became acutely malnourished.

“The majority of the people of Afghanistan are reeling from the effects of the ongoing economic crisis and cannot absorb any exacerbating shocks, including the earthquake that has hit these provinces,” said Marianna Franco, who oversees EU humanitarian programmes in Afghanistan.

School feeding first started in Laos in 2002, with a pilot programme by the Ministry of Education and Sports and WFP, in which 30,000 primary school children in Phongsaly, Oudomxay and Luangnamtha provinces were provided with mid-morning snacks. Starting from the 2016-2017 school year, more nutritious cooked meals replaced the mid-morning snacks.

The EU’s humanitarian aid funding is made available to WFP so that the latter can provide food and nutritional assistance to refugees in Nyarugusu, Nduta and Mtendeli camps in Western Tanzania. The WFP and other UN agencies continue to work with the governments of Tanzania and Burundi to facilitate the voluntary returns of refugees to their homeland.

The study was launched at a high-level meeting with the Government, private sector, and development partners, coinciding with the final day of the world’s global climate summit - COP 26 - in Glasgow.

Representatives from WFP and the Russian Consulate in Sughd Region, along with officials of Sughd Region and Isfara town, participated in the inauguration ceremony.

Amhara region – the frontlines of the conflict in Ethiopia - has seen the largest jump in numbers with 3.7 million people now in urgent need of humanitarian aid. Of the people across northern Ethiopia in need of assistance, more than 80% (7.8 million) of them are behind battle lines.

Following the heavy rains across Timor-Leste in early April 2021 that resulted in flash floods and landslides in all the 13 municipalities, the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MAF) requested the assistance of World Food Programme (WFP) to carry out a Food Security Assessment.

Through the training, community health workers are working under the national ‘First 1,000 Days’ programme on increasing the nutrition and health knowledge of pregnant and nursing mothers of children under 2 who are supported by the programme. The 1000 days is the period from the conception of the child and until they turn two years of age and is considered the most critical period in the child