WFP food rations can be an incentive for families to send women on training courses, where they learn how to read and write as well as basic marketable crafts. Enjila Hashimi spoke to women on a course in Kabul to find out what difference such a food-for-training activity had made in their lives.

Originally posted from Footballs and Literacy Change Lives for Afghan Women

Life has been very distressing for many Cambodians since severe flooding hit the country in 2011. And yet in part thanks to WFP Food-for-Assets project, there are some encouraging signs of recovery

Originally posted from Cambodia: Sam Eun And Family Make Flood Comeback

In Somaliland, thousands more people are getting fresh meat as part of their diet as the direct result of WFP using vouchers. The vouchers are being provided as the family ration to households who have a malnourished child enrolled in the Targeted Supplementary Feeding Programme. Local traders are seeing the benefits we well as the money is ploughed back into their ecomony. Added to that, the number of children being brought for screening has risen, so it’s a win-win stuation all round…

Originally posted from Camel meat? What a treat!