With World Humanitarian Day on Thursday 19 August, we launch the first in a series of staff profiles, taking an alternative look into the lives and backgrounds of the people who drive WFP’s work
When safety becomes too much to ask for, there is no choice but to leave everything behind. This is how Dalia, a mother of three, felt in 2011 when she and her husband decided to flee their Syrian hometown of Idlib to neighbouring Turkey.
The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is marked on Monday 9 August, with a focus on equal participation and partnership. Here we look at a project that offers a model for the future.
The World Food Programme launched its school meals programme in Venezuela, carrying out the first distributions of take-home rations in the state of Falcon.
Ahead of the UN’s Food Systems Summit in September, people involved in all aspects of the production, transport and consumption of food are meeting at a ‘pre-summit’ in Rome
UN Food Systems Pre-Summit: How governments are working to provide millions of schoolchildren with what is often their only nutritious, healthy meal of the day
Picking up the pieces is sadly routine for people such as Roda whose teashop was destroyed by fighting — the World Food Programme is at hand but requires urgent funds to assist
Hundreds and thousands of people in the south of the country may die of hunger without World Food Programme support — the organization urgently needs US$78 million to respond
Pioneering staff reflect on 20 years of the UN Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) in Brindisi, Italy, where G20 Ministers will discuss logistics in humanitarian response this week