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We can pull each of these 34 million individuals back from the brink, prevent starvation, and save millions of lives and livelihoods. All we need is the funding and access to do so. Within the Compact, the G7 leaders have reaffirmed their commitment to provide $7 billion in vital humanitarian assistance and take diplomatic action to promote humanitarian access.

“ECOWAS strongly supports Cabo verde National school feeding programme. I have personally benefited from school meals in my home country - The Gambia, as a primary school kid, and this has contributed in making the man I am today”, ECOWAS Commission President, Dr Omar Alieu Touray said.

This consignment forms part of a wider contribution of USD20 million from the United States towards WFP’s emergency operation to support Sri Lankan communities impacted by the country’s economic crisis.

“The queen hasn’t come back yet - she must be still roaming through Jericho,” says Aisha. On a hot May day in Jericho, a city in Palestine's West Bank, she's at work covered head-to-toe.

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Contact details for the UN World Food Programme's (WFP's) headquarters in Rome, and information on how to contact our country offices and media, fundraising, careers and procurement teams.

In the Sahel and West Africa, 26 million people currently do not have sufficient food during the ongoing harvest season (October-December 2021) which should mark the start of the end of the lean season, according to a just-released Cadre Harmonisé (CH) report on food security.

.     Who has inspired you most in your life?  My mother was really an inspiring woman for my sisters and myself. As a customs inspector, she was so invested in her professional life that she might not have spent enough time with us. However, we recognized that she did this so that we would receive what was needed the most, which was education and a comfortable life.

Due to protracted funding shortfalls, WFP has already been forced to cut rations for 750,000 registered refugees living in 22 camps and five sites in hosting communities in Afar, Amhara, Benishangul-Gumuz, Gambella, Somali and Tigray regions of Ethiopia.

“In a year when the world is already facing an unprecedented level of hunger, it’s just tragic to see hunger raising its head in what has long been the breadbasket of Europe,” said WFP Executive Director David Beasley during a visit to a staging hub set up by the organization on the Polish-Ukrainian border.