programs: School Meals
Millions of children around the world lack access to the education and nutrition they need to unlock their potential. The United Nations World Food Programme is the world’s largest provider of school meals.
School closures "could do lasting damage," says WFP's executive director. The futures of more than a billion students worldwide are at stake.
Millions of kids could go hungry during the pandemic without school meals. WFP wants to help.
WFP, UNICEF and the Honduran Government are helping teachers deliver food to out-of-school students on the remote Mosquito Coast - by bicycle.
As well as displaying global totals, the map shows how many children are affected in each country, with real-time data indicating both the scale of the challenges and the need for solutions.
As the coronavirus continues to spread, it is having dire consequences on the health and nutrition of school children and their families.
WFP is gearing up to ensure that children across the global still have access to school meals even while schools are closed due to Coronavirus.
Did you know that more than 50% of the world's farm workers are women? Or that 62 million school-aged girls don't go to class? See how stats like these impact women's hunger.
Preliminary results of a Harvard University analysis show that globally, every dollar spent on a school meals program can bring returns of as much as $20.
ADM has a long history of giving to WFP USA, and recently, they’ve committed to support school feeding programs in Myanmar, Egypt and the Philippines. We caught up with Jennifer Ballinger, director of ADM Cares, to learn more about why ADM is passionate solving global hunger.
In nearly two thirds of the world’s countries, women are more likely than men to suffer from hunger and food insecurity. Here are the top six reasons why.
What does it take to operate the world's largest hunger relief effort? 75,000 shipping containers, 17,000 employees, 5,600 trucks, 92 aircraft and 20 ships. This is how we #endhunger.
The Mt. Lebanon famine killed 200,000 people between 1915 and 1918. The situation in Syria today looks eerily similar.