Over the past year, WFP’s engineers and partners have been conducting disaster risk reduction activities for cyclone and monsoon preparedness and have steadily improved camp conditions and humanitarian access. Activities focus on improving and establishing roads, strengthening and clearing drains, reinforcing bridges in the camps, and reforestation.
The UN food agency is scaling up to provide life-saving food and nutrition assistance to an additional 5 million people by the end of this year, doubling the number of people WFP had planned to support at the start of 2024.
“I’m honored and humbled to be joining the United Nations World Food Programme to leverage my platforms to amplify the life saving work this organization does for the hungriest populations in the world,” said Bernath. “It’s inspiring to see the rippling effects of how improved food security can impact someone’s life.
WFP first partnered with dsm-firmenich (then Royal DSM) in 2007. Since then, the partnership has helped improve the diets and lives of tens of millions by contributing to the development of innovative nutrition and fortification solutions used across the world.
Leveraging her audience of nearly 4 million followers on social media, 4 million monthly users on her website, in addition to millions more on television, Rita Lobo will use her expertise to shed light on adequate and healthy diets and how to reduce food waste and avoid ultra-processed foods.
“Being designated WFP’s High-Level Supporter is a great honour.
WFP has been growing its engagement and support to government to strengthening social protection systems across the region, particularly in response to food and nutrition insecurity aggravated by covariate shocks. This newsletter provides a snapshot of WFP’s social protection work throughout 2022 in Western Africa.
Desperately needed rains across the Horn of Africa have so far failed to materialize, almost a month into the current rainy season, and if these conditions continue, along with stagnant and even decreasing humanitarian aid, the number of hungry people due to drought could spiral from the currently estimated 14 million to 20 million through 2022
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World Food Programme Country Director for Palestine Matthew Hollingworth:
“We’ve not been able to access our warehouse in Rafah for more than a week.
Famine has been confirmed in a camp sheltering hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Sudan’s North Darfur Region.
The declaration for Zamzam camp is a result of conflict, displacement and humanitarian access constraints.