World Food Programme Logistics

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

With hundreds of thousands of people displaced, UN agencies work with Government and other organizations to gauge needs A WFP operative talks to people in the municipality of Albay. Photo: WFP/Rene Pabilonia It subsequently hit Tiwi in Albay, San Narciso in Quezon, and Lobo in Batangas. So far, 16 people are reported to have died.

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MAY 26, 2020

Collaboration underway to make sure nutritious food reaches people who need it most WFP meets project beneficiaries to explain safety measures during food distribution: Photo: WFP/Mariia Babieva WFP is working around the clock to maintain food assistance programmes in Kyrgyzstan while monitoring the socioeconomic situation across the country.

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JUNE 2, 2020

and how WFP responded As crises become more frequent, our capacity to anticipate, mitigate and respond is keeping apace In 2019, for the third consecutive year, Zimbabwe experienced a drought?—?the Photo: WFP/Matteo Cosorich Climate shocks have become one of the leading drivers of hunger worldwide. and how WFP prepared and responded.

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JULY 14, 2020

The World Food Programme is at hand to assist country already reeling from a spate of extreme weather events A WFP mobile storage unit serves as a temporary isolation facility for the Municipality of Pila in Laguna. Photo: WFP/Almyr Bernabe On top of coronavirus, the Philippines is suffering climate shock after climate shock?—?earthquakes

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World Food Programme Logistics

MARCH 18, 2020

Whether it is a crisis caused by conflict, disaster, or a health emergency, such as the Ebola outbreaks in recent years, WFP always stands prepared to help. Whether it is a crisis caused by conflict, disaster, or a health emergency, such as the Ebola outbreaks in recent years, WFP always stands prepared to help.

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World Food Programme Logistics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

a longtime WFP Innovation collaborator and first-time WFP Innovation Accelerator Bootcamp partner. WFP has largely replaced in-school meals with monthly take-home rations. Lauded as a ‘disruptive innovation’, the World Food Programme has been awarded US$100,000 to develop it further in its bid to achieve zero hunger by 2030.

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World Food Programme Logistics

JULY 28, 2020

WFP saves a massive stock of wheat from Yemen’s frontline The United Nations World Food Programme’s saves food stored at the Red Sea Mills near Hodeidah nearly two years after Yemen’s war had cut off access to half of the agency’s stock of wheat in the country. Four-year-old Omar sits on bags of WFP flour in Khawlan, Yemen. The food?—?enough

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Like thousands of mothers, Nora collects monthly food baskets in a school feeding programme backed by Canada Nora Maneja’s children receive WFP take-home rations in Cahora Bassa , Tete province. Photo: WFP/Rafael Campos This is a difficult time for Nora Maneja. million primary school students, including her four children.

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World Food Programme Logistics

JULY 21, 2020

Complementing the Government’s emergency food response to feed 54,000 people WFP delivers food to marooned villagers in Kulesa. Photo: WFP/Edwin Nyakundi Story by Martin Karimi Halima Guyole is overjoyed. You [WFP] are a godsend!” Photo: WFP/Edwin Nyakundi Halima, 54, comes from Vubwe village.

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World Food Programme Logistics

AUGUST 28, 2020

Global Air Passenger Service means humanitarians can continue work assisting others despite severe air-travel restrictions WFP Aviation staff speak with immigration officers at Accra International Airport. Photo: WFP/Derrick Botchway Story by Eleonora Ponti “The organization urgently needs me to fill a vacant position in Mali.

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World Food Programme Logistics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

With rice imports prone to delays, the World Food Programme finds a worthy alternative in the popular root vegetable WFP is working with Congo’s Ministry of Agriculture and the University of Greenwich to ensure high standards of output. But there was a problem: the World Food Programme (WFP) had no food stocks available.

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World Food Programme Logistics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Photo: WFP/Edmond Khoury Some lost their loved ones, many lost their homes, and livelihoods following the blast that destroyed Beirut’s port in August, killing 190 people. A+ Initiatives is one of many organizations the World Food Programme (WFP) has supplied food parcels to over the past two months.

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World Food Programme Logistics

MAY 7, 2020

WFP equips vulnerable refugees with hygiene kits to help them mitigate COVID-19 risks as much as possible. Separately, WFP is also providing camp workers with personal protective equipment such as gloves and N-95 masks. WFP field staff deliver hygiene kits to families at a refugee camp in Hatay, southern Turkey.

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World Food Programme Logistics

APRIL 27, 2020

Food brings hope for tribal communities who’ve fled by war and face the threat of COVID-19 [link] By WFP staff For Khaish Meena, a 65-year-old woman from northwest Pakistan, COVID-19 is yet another obstacle that she needs to confront, like any number of hardships she’s encountered over the decades. We can only rely on others to support us.”

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World Food Programme Logistics

JUNE 22, 2020

The World Food Programme Innovation Accelerator is holding its 28th Bootcamp online, with nine teams taking part Innovators testing an app outside the WFP Innovation Accelerator in Munich. Photo: WFP/Paul Guenther This week the World Food Programme’s Innovation Accelerator is running its 28th Bootcamp in five years.

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World Food Programme Logistics

OCTOBER 2, 2020

But many more lack a safety-net to fall back on Hannah Muthoni, one of the recipients of cash from WFP, sits outside her home. Photo: WFP/Martin Karimi Story by Martin Karimi Hannah Muthoni runs a posho (maizemeal) mill in Mukuru Fuata Nyayo informal settlement in Kenya’s capital city Nairobi. A hard life has just got tougher.

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World Food Programme Logistics

APRIL 30, 2020

Despatched to West Africa in 2014, Chiara Camassa draws on a wealth of experience as she helps Haiti respond to the pandemic Chiara standing at WFP’s warehouse in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Since arriving in the Caribbean country four months ago, Camassa has been the WFP ‘focal point’ for COVID-19 issues?—?largely Five people have died.

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World Food Programme Logistics

JULY 21, 2020

which it then buys to supply to schoolchildren WFP’s Jean-Martin samples a mbala pinda bar. Photo: WFP/Alice Rahmoun ‘Mbala pinda’, a handmade savoury cassava and peanut bar, a delicacy in the Republic of the Congo, is reviving trade and bringing nutrition to vulnerable people in the country of 4.6

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World Food Programme Logistics

JUNE 2, 2020

Photo: WFP/Annabel Symington Women make up a little over half of the world’s population but suffer unequal access to resources and education in every corner of the globe. The World Food Programme (WFP) is committed to reducing inequality and empowering women with the means to command livelihoods. nearly half of whom are women?

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World Food Programme Logistics

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

HIV-positive people in Malawi are winning a boost from WFP Hunger makes medication ineffective but nutritional support from WFP is putting lives back on track Esther suffered wasting but antiretroviral therapy is turning her life around. Photo: WFP/Francis Thawani “I now have the appetite to eat, unlike before.

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World Food Programme Logistics

MARCH 16, 2020

World Food Programme sends medical equipment to support China’s response to COVID-19 US$500,000 worth of kit to set to assist Chinese government efforts to treat patients and stem the spread of Coronavirus The first batch of WFP supplies, including 50 sets of non-invasive ventilators, reach Wuhan.

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World Food Programme Logistics

JULY 13, 2020

Photo: WFP/Rajendra Rasaili Story by Monica Upadhyay Like many children in Nepal, for the past three months, Ashiki has missed out on school because of the coronavirus lockdown. Photo: WFP/Rajendra Rasaili Every day, Ashiki makes a point of getting in some exercise. Reading stories with her mum Padma in the courtyard.

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World Food Programme Logistics

JULY 2, 2020

Latin America at centre of concerns as invisible enemy hits countries beset by climate change and conflict Colombia: WFP and World Vision provide 5,000 food baskets to Colombians and migrants in Soacha, near Bogotá. WFP is issuing an urgent call for US$4.9 Photo: WFP/Khudr Alissa “What is frightening is that the peak is yet to come.

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World Food Programme Logistics

JUNE 11, 2020

Photo: Rafael Campos/ WFP The World Food Programme (WFP) is providing life-saving assistance to the most vulnerable people living in resettlement centres in Sofala Province, one of the regions devastated by Cyclone Idai in March 2019. 54,375 people are being targeted by WFP in five districts in the province.

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World Food Programme Logistics

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Photo: WFP/Sean Rajman By Sean Rajman In Cabo Delgado, in the north of Mozambique, a humanitarian crisis is unfolding that is receiving little global attention. WFP staff work with colleagues from Mozambique’s National Disasters Management Institute. Truck laden with WFP sacks leaves a warehouse in Pemba.

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World Food Programme Logistics

MARCH 26, 2020

This March, the World Food Programme’s (WFP) Tilda Rice is running its sixth cause-related marketing campaign, Helping Mums Together, in support of the UN agency’s work providing improved nutritional foods to mothers and children in Bangladesh. Tilda’s campaign with WFP is ensuring the best start in life for newborns in Bangladesh.

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World Food Programme Logistics

JUNE 5, 2020

The World Food Programme is working with USAID to meet the nutritional needs of mothers and children A mother and her son transport food rations from WFP home in Aleppo. They are given sachets of supplementary food from WFP, that helps them to get the nutrients they need. Nour is 10 months old, gaining weight and becoming healthier.

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World Food Programme Logistics

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

WFP warns Make food a tool for peace instead, urges Executive Director Marking International Day of Peace today, the World Food Programme (WFP)’s Executive Director David Beasley is adamant: “There’s no two ways about it?—?we No end to world hunger without an end to conflict?—?WFP we can’t end hunger unless we put an end to conflict.”

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World Food Programme Logistics

APRIL 20, 2020

UN bodies and humanitarian organizations warn donors that failing to invest $2bn could have devastating consequences Somalia: A WFP distribution point in Kaya, Sanmatenga province. World leaders call on WFP to lead COVID-19 fight in Africa “Humanity collectively faces its most daunting challenge since the Second World War,” the letter said.

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World Food Programme Logistics

AUGUST 20, 2020

For a few days now, on behalf of the Emergency and Response Unit in the Wolrd Food Programme (WFP) Indonesia office in Jakarta, as a Programme Associate I have been leading training sessions for community volunteers for disaster response, referred to as TAGANA in the Bahasa Indonesian language. Photo: WFP A smile on my face.

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World Food Programme Logistics

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

But WFP did not simply walk away from this crucial safety net. For instance, WFP has supported training on monitoring and evaluation as well as on food safety and quality, introduced new menus made up of locally available foods, and trained chefs on safe food handling and preparation skills. the school kitchen?—?thanks

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World Food Programme Logistics

DECEMBER 5, 2019

WFP`s Kitchen of Hope helps get refugees into the world of work The World Food Programme`s Kitchen of Hope project provides culinary training and helps increase employment opportunities for primarily Syrian refugees and interested Turkish nationals. Photo: Suraj Sharma/WFP. Photo: Suraj Sharma/WFP. He is smiling because?—?as

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World Food Programme Logistics

AUGUST 15, 2019

By David Kaatrud, Regional Director, WFP Asia and the Pacific (2014–2019) For Manulete, a remote mountain town 70 km southwest of the capital city, Dili, the busiest place is always its health post. WFP is privileged to be here, witnessing many milestones since the organization first set up its operations in 1999.

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World Food Programme Logistics

JANUARY 16, 2020

“I don’t want my children to be talking to WFP in 25 years” How food and cash from the European Union provide life-saving regular support to Somali refugees in Ethiopia until they can get back on track Hinda and Sumaya. Photo: WFP/Edward Johnson Hinda was born in eastern Ethiopia 25 years ago to Somali parents.

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World Food Programme Logistics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Photo: WFP/Mike Bloem Our mission is to serve the needs of the 821 million hungry people in the world, and we have been tireless in our search for partnerships with industry leaders in the private sector who can enhance our reach and improve our delivery of humanitarian assistance.

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World Food Programme Logistics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Photos: WFP The World Food Programme (WFP) is lending its emergency expertise to support response efforts in the Bahamas, which is reeling from its worst-ever hurricane. WFP staff are embedded in a team led by the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency, which is assessing damage and areas of greatest need.

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World Food Programme Logistics

JULY 16, 2020

WFP stands up for the food security of the most vulnerable people as coronavirus hits hard Millions across Colombia struggle to guarantee adequate nutrition for themselves and their families WFP beneficiaries in La Guajira, Colombia. As a victim of violence and displacement, Elsy has experienced multiple forms of discrimination.

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