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Most of the people that WFP and its partners reached in those areas had not received humanitarian assistance since April, despite multiple attempts by WFP and other UN agencies to secure access.

Leonardo, a LGBTQ rights activist, learned he was HIV-positive when he took a test in 2018 as he was about to travel abroad. “The doctor did not say anything – she just started sorting forms. I knew then she was going to tell me I was positive – there had never been forms before. I felt like I was drowning, falling into the void.

Ram Bibi and her parents are among nearly more than 7,300 refugee families from Afghanistan and Iraq residing inside 20 settlements across Iran. Cash assistance from the World Food Programme(WFP) facilitated by donors such as the European Union enables people to buy the foods they need, while in-kind foods such as flour enable families to make food.  Ram Bibi's family moved to Iran

When Udaya Sharma joined WFP 14 years ago, he began monitoring the impact of school meals that he himself had received as a child growing up in Bhutan.

Speaking from South Carolina at a press event with former governors George Pataki and Jim Hodges, Beasley said that while even the poor in developed nations will feel the impact of economic shock, the world’s most vulnerable are most exposed. “When we don't have enough money,” said Beasley, “we have to choose who eats, who doesn't eat, who lives, who dies – and that’s when there's 430 trillion

It’s a country they barely remember. They hang onto each word, story, picture from home hoping they will remain connected somehow — yet for 2.5 million Syrian children whose families have fled to other Middle Eastern countries, it remains the home they long for. Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey host more than 5.6 million Syrians.

They’re good for us. They’re good for the planet. Better yet, they taste good.

With years of conflict, a severe economic downturn, and food prices rising relentlessly since 2020, the Ukraine crisis is exacerbating what was already an alarming food security scenario in Syria. In March, food prices increased by 24 percent in just one month, following an 800 percent increase in the last two years.

Our work in over 120 countries and territories includes a broad range of activities to save and change lives, with the ultimate goal of a world with zero hunger. We support governments and populations in mitigating the impact of threats including conflict, climate shocks and other disasters, and in developing sustainable livelihoods that can build self-reliance and resilience in the long term.

The MoU marks the fifth and final tranche of 50,000 mt of wheat that the Government of India committed as humanitarian food assistance for Afghanistan in 2020, and was signed in New Delhi between J. P.