Millions of hungry children and families on the brink of famine in conflict zones need your help.
This year, we’ve seen a dramatic increase in need. Without enough funding, WFP won’t be able to provide food aid to all the people who need it most.
Make your 100% tax-deductible gift today and DOUBLE your impact. Donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar. Can hungry families count on your help?
Bangladesh still faces high poverty and undernutrition rates, aggravated by frequent natural disasters and a high population density. The high prevalence of child marriage and undernutrition in mothers and adolescent girls contributes to the cycle of undernutrition. The prevalence of stunting in children under the age of 5 years continues to pose a major challenge, with about 5.5 million children (36 percent) stunted and a global acute undernutrition rate of 14 percent. Despite considerable progress in school enrollment, an estimated 3.3 million out of 20 million primary school aged children remain out of school.
WFP has been present in Bangladesh since 1974 and has assisted registered refugees from Myanmar since 1992. WFP aims to achieve significant gains in reducing hunger and undernutrition in the coming years by implementing and developing, through effective partnerships, innovative long-term solutions by responding to emergencies.
WFP aims to assist 3.6 million people in 15 prioritized districts over five years, which is designed to improve the long-term food security of ultra-poor households and the nutritional situation of women and children in the poorest and most food-insecure rural areas and urban slums. It has four components:
More than 900,000 refugees still call Bangladesh home--one year after the majority fled escalating violence in western Myanmar.
Since 2017, school meals have given Rohingya children a critical source of nutrition and a life-changing opportunity to continue their education after fleeing violence.
Every year on August 19th, the world pays tribute to aid workers who risk their lives in humanitarian service. Meet five humanitarians with the World Food Programme (WFP) who are…
Halfway through the year, a nonstop effort is underway to protect hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees from the worst of the monsoon season.
This past May, the U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution officially recognizing the link between conflict and hunger for the first time. The measure (#2417-2018) calls on parties to…
In Bangladesh, saving lives means making sure that every Rohingya refugee has the food they need to survive.
World Food Programme (WFP) engineers are in a race against time to create safe land in the world’s largest refugee camp where the most vulnerable will be relocated before the…
The rain has started to fall where nearly 700,000 refugees have sought safety since last August. What happens now?
Rohingya women share their stories
The monsoon season sets new challenges for people living in camps on the Bangladesh border.