Crisis Caused by Funding Cuts
Millions of people depend on WFP to survive. Now their lives are at risk because of massive funding cuts. We urgently need your support to prevent starvation.
Severe funding shortfalls are having devastating consequences for the world’s hungriest people, especially women and children. The World Food Programme (WFP) is being forced to scale back or completely stop operations, even in the worst crisis zones.
58 Million
58 million people could face starvation because of funding cuts.
28
WFP is reducing or stopping aid across 28 of its most critical operations.
40%
WFP is facing a 40% funding shortfall compared to last year.
On the Brink of Catastrophe
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The Faces of Funding Cuts
Nyabang and her children live in Ethiopia’s Jewi Refugee Camp. Her disability and refugee status puts her at higher risk of extreme hunger, and she relies on food from WFP to feed her family. However, funding gaps have forced WFP to cut rations by 40% for 1 million refugees in Ethiopia, including Nyabang. Without an influx of money, 3.6 million of the most vulnerable people will lose food assistance altogether in just a few weeks.
We met Hinda when she was only five days old and resting in her aunt’s hands. She was born in the Albohuth Camp for internally displaced people in Kassala City, Sudan, where more than 600K people have taken refuge from ongoing conflict. They depend entirely on food assistance from WFP to survive. For vulnerable infants like her, it’s the difference between life and death. Famine has already been confirmed in five nearby areas. Yet, a looming pipeline break threatens to bring WFP’s operations to a halt.
“Sometimes we have nothing to eat, only borrowed bread from our neighbors to feed my children,” Gholam said. His family lives in Logar, one of the Afghan provinces affected by funding cuts. At a time when Afghanistan is experiencing the most severe spike in child malnutrition ever recorded in the country and more than one third of the population is facing extreme hunger, funding shortfalls have forced WFP to cut assistance for 8 million people.
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