Programs: Food Vouchers and E-cards
When local markets are functioning and food is available yet unaffordable for the most vulnerable families, the United Nations World Food Programme provides food vouchers and e-cards instead of traditional food commodities.
When it comes to fighting global hunger, the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) is always evolving.
Giving Rohingya women control of food assistance cash entitlements helps them enhance their social role and feed their families better
An insight into how families are trying to find a sense of normality in Djibouti.
Journalist Dalia Mortada was born and raised in the U.S., but she grew up in a Syrian kitchen. Learn about the aromas and flavors that would define her childhood, seal her identity as a Syrian-American and inspire her project Savoring Syria.
Achieving a lasting peace agreement and making life-saving gains in nutrition among women and children make these two countries promising areas for new collaboration and investment.
For Hussein, a Syrian refugee in Lebanon, ensuring the proper nutrition for his family is a challenge. That's why WFP's innovative e-cards have provided a lifeline.
Almost four years after fleeing Syria, he and his family struggle to reconcile the life they didn’t ask for with the one they left behind.
The United Nations World Food Programme’s emergency response to the Syria crisis is its largest and most complex operation to date.
Welcome to WFP’s recipe series exploring the culinary treasures and cooking abilities of refugees who benefit from the agency’s cash and vouchers program, an initiative that allows families to buy fresh, local ingredients to cook traditional dishes. Thirty-six-year-old Priscilla and her husband, Wellington, are subsistence farmers in the village of Sasula in central Zimbabwe. They live with Priscilla’s 92-year-old grandmother, her sister and […]
Consultant and researcher Sam Chapple-Sokol discusses the emerging field of culinary diplomacy.
For 1.7 million Syrian refugees in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, WFP's e-cards are a vital source of food — and hope — so far from home.