Cape Verde: School-Meals Girl Now A Career Woman In 1990, seven-year-old Vera Tavares starred in a WFP documentary about the nutritious lunches that were keeping her in school. Today, she’s a college educated career woman able to support her mother and put her brother through university. Vera tells us how those simple school meals made it all possible. Watch video
Kalinga barangays allot food-for-work share to eradicate dengue Joining the multi-sectoral fight against dengue, some barangays in the province allotted their food-for-work appropriation for the clearing of canals and water passages to eradicate possible breeding places of mosquitoes. (..) Kalinga is one of the beneficiary areas under the United Nation's World Food Program.
DHL deploys disaster response team in Pakistan DHL, the world's leading express and Logistics Company, announced that it has deployed a team of logistics experts from its Disaster Response Team (DRT) to manage a temporary warehouse at Islamabad International Airport. (..) Incoming supplies from the United Nations World Food Programme as well as contributions from governments worldwide arriving through Islamabad International Airport will be handled by DHL's DRT via three to five relief flights per day.
WFP raises concerns about food provisioning The UN’s World Food Programme has raised serious concerns about the provision of food in the flood-affected areas. A report compiled by IRIN, the UN information unit, quoted Frances Kennedy, a WFP spokesperson as saying, “We are worried about the nutritional situation in the flood-hit areas.”
Stalled funding hits Pakistan aid effort: UN Relief efforts in flood-ravaged Pakistan are being stretched by the "unprecedented scale" of the disaster, with the flow of international aid almost at a standstill, the UN said Thursday. (..) The World Food Programme has warned that Pakistan faces a triple threat to food supplies -- with seeds, crops and incomes hit.
DRC: For Rape Victims, Food Aid Key To Healing Process Civil unrest in the Democratic Republic of Congo has led to an outbreak of sexual violence, with over 17,500 women raped last year. By drawing women to health centres and providing nourishment for them and their children, food aid has proved to be a key part of the healing process.
Pakistan Operational Update ISLAMABAD – A month after torrential monsoon rains caused Pakistan’s worst natural disaster , leaving flood victims at risk of hunger and disease, WFP is ramping up its emergency operation to ensure that the most vulnerable people continue to receive life-saving food assistance and children do not slip into malnutrition.
