The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are 17 action points to achieve peace and prosperity agreed by the United Nations Member States in 2015. WFP's main focus is SDG 2: Zero Hunger.
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The visit underscores substantial investments in the country from the Governments of France and Germany and their ongoing partnership with the Government of Lao PDR and WFP, particularly focusing on women's empowerment amid deteriorating food security conditions.
Joyce Namoe, a programme associate with the World Food Programme in Uganda, joined WFP in 1999.
She is passionate about using school feeding as an incentive for parents to keep girls in school.
“We’re saving a lot of girls from early marriages, forced marriages,” she says.
