Articles tagged with: hunger
Kenyan court jails men who killed UN aid worker WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran. Photo: WFP/Rein Skullerud 1 February 2012 – The head of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Josette Sheeran welcomed today the decision by the Kenyan High Court to sentence five men to 56 years in prison each for the murder of […]
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New UN initiative aims to harness power of social media to fight global hunger 1 February 2012 – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is launching a week-long campaign in which users of the popular online trivia game Freerice can recruit their friends to help bring food to the world’s most vulnerable populations. World Freerice […]
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UN scales up food assistance for more than 80,000 people in South Sudan An internally displaced mother and her children among IDPs in South Sudan. Photo: UNMISS/Gideon Pibor 31 January 2012 – The United Nations World Food Programme announced today that it will scale up its assistance to reach 80,000 people affected by the recent […]
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Senior UN official highlights new tools to provide food aid to fragile countries WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran 1 December 2011 – The head of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) stressed today the importance of providing more support to fragile countries, adding that new agreements reached during this week’s aid effectiveness forum in the […]
Food Aid Brings Fresh Water To Nepalese Village Kanukura, 33, says that carrying water up the mountain slopes to her village used to be the hardest part of her day. It’s a job that mainly fell to women in this part of Nepal, who faced a backbreaking climb when they needed water. But that’s changed […]
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Ethiopia: HIV+ Mother Pulls Family Back from Brink With the help of WFP’s food support and livelihood assistance programmes, Belaynish Dabe and her HIV-positive husband no longer struggle to feed themselves and their children. WFP’s food support to people living with HIV helps ameliorate the double burden of lack of income and deteriorating health. For […]
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UN food aid agency helps create online game to fight hunger 30 November 2011 The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and Japanese electronic entertainment company Konami Digital have teamed up to release an online game today that can support the fight against hunger. The game, Food Force, takes players through the process of planting, harvesting, processing […]
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UN and Brazil launch initiative to combat hunger among school children The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Brazilian Government today launched a new initiative to help countries run their own national school meal programmes to advance the nutrition and education of children. The Centre of Excellence Against Hunger, located in the capital, […]
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Brazil And WFP Launch Centre Of Excellence Against Hunger … WFP and the Government of Brazil have launched the Centre of Excellence Against Hunger, a joint initiative which aims to help countries expand their school meal programmes so as to improve […]
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UN project seeks to make use of Nile’s resources to fend off poverty and hunger 27 October 2011 A United Nations report released today on the use and management of water in the Nile River basin calls for for new methods to boost agricultural productivity and warns that governments must take action to keep population growth and resource […]
