No one could have predicted the crisis in Syria would last this long. Especially not Iman. With her head bent and one arm clutching her baby girl, Iman sits brooding over a broken past and an uncertain future.
The Mt. Lebanon famine killed 200,000 people between 1915 and 1918. The situation in Syria today looks eerily similar.
Sri Lanka has one of the highest rates of acute malnutrition in the world. SUN BN – a global network spanning 41 countries – aims to reduce malnutrition in all its forms through investment, innovation and sustainable actions.
“Poor Haitian families face a very dramatic situation” said Miguel Barreto, WFP Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean. One in three Haitians, or 3.7 million people, need urgent food assistance, including 1 million suffering severe hunger.
With his camera in hand, WFP’s head of television Jonathan Dumont recounts the stories he’s heard after more than four years of filming in Yemen – the world’s worst hunger crisis.
WFP USA today announced that its Board of Directors named UNICEF USA Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer, Barron Segar, as its new President and CEO, effective Jan. 21, 2020.
World Food Program USA has been selected as a Shorty Social Good Award Finalist for its Women Are Hungrier campaign in the Best Multi-Platform Campaign category.
The Fund has awarded two organizations – World Assistance for Cambodia and Kakenya’s Dream – with grants to expand their programs and make an even greater impact on the lives of the women and girls they serve.
The scope and scale of the world’s food imbalance and its consequences on people and the planet require bold and broad action.
#StoptheWaste is a global campaign to raise awareness about the huge amounts of edible food that is discarded every day – a habit that must be overcome if we are to make real progress in eradicating global hunger.
