We have learned that fighting hunger involves not just delivering food, but also transferring cash; not just transferring cash, but transferring knowledge; not knowledge in a void, but knowledge that makes local sense; and not just knowledge we own, but knowledge derived from conversations of equals.
When Olexander and Liubov’s home in Kharkiv came under heavy shelling, they grabbed their two boys and rushed to the basement where they spent the entire night.
“We came out of the basement in the morning,” says Liubov.
Abdallah Nassir, Abdallah Yacoub, Abakar, Hissein, Kaltouma, Sima and Hannan are among the 20,000 Sudanese refugees living in Djabal camp, near Goz Beida, Chad.
The village of Grande Rivière du Nord owes its name to the stream that gently splits it into two shores. But in the last two years, not much water has fallen from the sky, and most harvests were lost.
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With limited aid entering through southern and central Gaza, WFP has been forced to provide families with reduced rations – where rations are possible – and prioritize providing hot meals, especially targeting more than 1 million people displaced from Rafah.
The limited ration
Funding shortfalls already forced WFP to cut its food vouchers from US$ 12 to US$ 10 per person per month, in March this year.
“We are appealing for urgent support so that we can restore rations to the full amount as soon as possible.
During my two days here, I had the chance to engage with people benefitting from WFP programmes including the Government-led National Poverty Targeting Programme.
Earlier this month, an Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report already warned that by November more than 90 percent of Gaza’s population will face severe food insecurity. It forecast that a large group would be in an “emergency phase” of need, while others would face “catastrophic” levels of food insecurity.
The El Niño impact is exacerbating the devastating effects of the climate crisis in Malawi. The country is still suffering from the impacts of tropical storms and cyclones in 2022 and 2023 and the compounded effect is to push up to 40 percent of Malawi’s population into hunger, threatening both lives and livelihoods.
”Driving through Gaza City to Jabalia, the destruction is unbelievable. In the North of Gaza, I didn’t see one single building intact and there was constant shelling with drones buzzing overhead,” said Skau. “The people here are traumatised and exhausted.
