Jacob fled his home in South Sudan as a child and ended up in a refugee camp in Ethiopia. In the camp he remembers receiving WFP food aid and realised its importance. He is now living in Canada, where he has established a charity through which he hopes to build schools in his native land.

Originally posted from Former Refugee Aims To Build Schools In South Sudan

From the outside they look like seven ordinary white shipping containers. But step inside, and you discover a miniature biscuit factory that can be taken apart like pieces of Lego, shipped to Afghanistan, and then reassembled to produce high energy biscuits for hungry Afghan school children.

Originally posted from A Mobile Biscuit Factory Heads To Afghanistan

Few people grasp the importance of good nutrition as well as Olympic Athletes. No matter how talented, they can’t give their best without it. Here are four renowned Olympic athletes who say nutrition is just as important to children, especially those who risk not getting enough.

Originally posted from 4 Olympic Athletes Who Stepped Up For Child Nutrition

Few people grasp the importance of good nutrition as well as Olympic Athletes. No matter how talented, they can’t give their best without it. Here are four renowned Olympic athletes who say nutrition is just as important to children, especially those who risk not getting enough.

Originally posted from 4 Olympic Athletes Who Stepped Up For Child Nutrition

To celebrate the 2012 Olympics and mark its 50th anniversary, WFP’s London office has launched – together with Crossrail* – an inspirational exhibition of photos in the capital, showing children from the developing world playing games. 

Originally posted from WFP London Marks 50th Anniversary And Olympics

Hunger and malnutrition are significant obstacles to the global fight against the HIV virus, agreed experts at the International AIDS Conference in Washington DC (AIDS 2012). Indeed, helping patients with HIV meet their nutritional needs can make the difference between life and death, said WFP nutritionist Martin Bloem.

Originally posted from Breaking The Cycle Of HIV, Hunger and Poverty

A photo of a daring manoeuvre by a truck driver in Afghanistan recently became the most popular item ever posted by WFP on Facebook. Spokesperson Silke Buhr spoke to the man behind the camera and the man behind the wheel. See the post

Originally posted from Facebook Cheers For A Daring Trucker In Afghanistan

In Zimbabwe, WFP and the German Government’s development agency, GIZ, are working together to improve the food security of vulnerable people in rural Manicaland. Since 2009, not only has WFP managed the logistics and warehousing of GIZ’s largest agricultural project in Zimbabwe, but recently the project has also adopted WFP’s style of distribution plans and locations.

Originally posted from WFP and GIZ’s Integrated Approach Helps Farmers in Zimbabwe

Twelve months after the declaration of famine in Somalia, WFP provides ten simple questions with relative answers in order to better explain what the situation is now like.

Originally posted from Somalia After The Famine: 10 Simple Questions

To assist the humanitarian community in its response to the Malian refugee crisis in Mauritania, WFP receives mobile storage facilities to house the necessary food to feed the growing number of refugees.

Originally posted from UPS delivers critical humanitarian storage facilities to WFP Mauritania