Laureate of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. 🇺🇳🌾🍛 The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency working towards
#ZeroHunger
.
WFP's work is...
➡️Saving lives: WFP assistance makes the difference between life and death for millions of people caught up in crises.
➡️Changing lives: We also help communities to adapt to climate change, become more resilient, access good nutrition, & improve food systems.
“Women are bearing the brunt of hunger in Afghanistan,” says the
@WFP
’s Mary-Ellen McGroarty. “I meet many young women who are the only breadwinner in the family, and can’t go to work. It is absolutely heartbreaking.”
Pleased to hear that the 4th
@WFP
convoy with food for people in north-west
#Syria
has returned safely to Aleppo from Sarmada, Idleb. Cross-line convoys are important complementary mechanisms to the indispensable humanitarian support delivered through cross-border access points.
⬆️📸Muntaha and Hussain's family fled to
#Iraq
in 2013.
Recent food price hikes are threatening the food security of
#refugee
families from Syria such as theirs.
Now “everything is expensive. What was priced at 500 dinar, now it becomes 1,000 dinar.”
NEW: Syrian families living in camps in
#Iraq
face alarming levels of food insecurity.
WFP and UNHCR
@Refugees
have supported Syrian refugees since the onset of the crisis and continue to do so, yet rising food prices are placing them at greater risk.
@RedCrossUkraine
delivered meal kits to the settlement of Mala Rohan, Kharkivska oblast, which has been under occupation for more than a month. In partnership with the
@WFP
, volunteers delivered one ton of meal kits on their own vehicles.
When you don't have food security, you're not going to have any security at all. If the world is serious about averting famine, destabilization & mass migration, we must address the root causes of hunger.
My full briefing at
@SenateApprops
; 25-min mark:
The right to food does not discriminate.
WFP strives to ensure inclusion throughout our organization and operations, and we celebrate the diversity of our workforce and the people we serve today and every day.
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ⚧ ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
#IDAHOBIT2022
Having survived the bombing of their home in Kharkiv, the Arseniev family tell their story from
#Ukraine
.
They are now some of the 3.6 million Ukrainians who receive emergency food assistance from WFP.
It's green!💚Another little boy is no longer malnourished!
Three-year-old Ahed was diagnosed with moderate acute malnutrition in early 2021. He has been treated in a
@WFP
-supported Health Centre in Sana'a & has now fully recovered.
Yemen's children can't wait.
#YemenCantWait