Fatia and Halima are a pair of young mothers who fled the famine zone in southern Somalia earlier this year for the alleys of Modagishu. They’re fighting to protect their children from malnutrition, a battle they stand a good chance of winning with help from a special food product called Plumpy’Sup.

Originally posted from Mogadishu Mothers Get A Hand In Fight To Keep Kids Nourished

A scheme tapping the potential of rural women to pull communities out of hunger emerged from a side-event at this year’s meeting of United Nations General Assembly between WFP and UN Women. The agreement focuses on helping women earn income by putting them in charge of projects that boost food security.

Originally posted from WFP And UN Women Announce Plan To Empower Rural Women

Enrollment at schools in Northern Darfur where kids get free meals from WFP rose substantially over the 2010-2011 school year, statistics show. One of the kids benefitting from the daily meal of nutritious porridge is Haythum, 12, whose family was displaced by conflict 4 years ago.

Originally posted from Sudan: School Meals Feed Displaced Child’s Hope Of Becoming Doctor

Enrollment at schools in Northern Darfur where kids get free meals from WFP rose substantially over the 2010-2011 school year, statistics show. One of the kids benefitting from the daily meal of nutritious porridge is Haythum, 12, whose family was displaced by conflict 4 years ago.

Originally posted from Sudan: School Meals Feed Displaced Child’s Hope Of Becoming Doctor

FreeRice, the online quiz game that turns right answers into rice for the hungry, is now available in French and Italian. The new language versions open the door to millions of new players, while giving French and Italian learners a new way to drill their vocabulary while fighting world hunger.

Originally posted from FreeRice Now In French And Italian

The UN focused its attention to the humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa on Saturday, with Secretary General  Ban Ki-moon warning that the “crisis grows deeper by the day”. Looking for long-term solutions at a mini-summit, he cited programs in Ethiopia and Kenya which showed how "drought need not become famine"

Originally posted from Horn Of Africa: ‘Drought Need Not Become Famine,’ Says UN

WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran praised the “passion and courage” of World Vision, WFP’s biggest NGP partner in the world, and commended the organization’s new report on nutrition.

Originally posted from WFP Head Highlights ‘Courage’ Of Key NGO Partner World Vision

Volatile food prices present a serious threat to the world’s poor who risk falling into hunger without the right “safety net” policies, WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran argued Wednesday at an IMF commodity seminar. According to Sheeran, the need for such policies puts finance ministers and global financial institutions at the center of the fight against hunger.

Originally posted from World’s Poorest Need Protection From Rocky Food Prices, Says WFP Head

WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran joined heads of government and other UN leaders at a high-level event in New York on Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN), calling on the international movement to aim for nothing less than the total eradication of child stunting in the world.

Originally posted from WFP Head Urges Leaders To Eliminate Child Stunting

WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran was honoured by the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood (WRA) on Monday for her efforts on behalf of the hungry in the drought-hit Horn of Africa.

Originally posted from WFP Head Receives Award For Action To Help Horn Of Africa