ShareNow » BLOG http://www.sharenow.com Mon, 20 May 2013 03:44:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Vegetable Oil Gets Girls To Go To School In Afghanistan http://www.sharenow.com/2013/05/20/vegetable-oil-gets-girls-to-go-to-school-in-afghanistan-2/ http://www.sharenow.com/2013/05/20/vegetable-oil-gets-girls-to-go-to-school-in-afghanistan-2/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 03:44:21 +0000 admin http://www.sharenow.com/2013/05/20/vegetable-oil-gets-girls-to-go-to-school-in-afghanistan-2/ In Afghanistan, far more boys go to school than girls. WFP is trying to change that by providing food incentives for female students.

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]]> http://www.sharenow.com/2013/05/20/vegetable-oil-gets-girls-to-go-to-school-in-afghanistan/feed/ 0 WFP Ready To Assist As Cyclone Mahasen Hits Bangladesh And Myanmar http://www.sharenow.com/2013/05/16/wfp-ready-to-assist-as-cyclone-mahasen-hits-bangladesh-and-myanmar/ http://www.sharenow.com/2013/05/16/wfp-ready-to-assist-as-cyclone-mahasen-hits-bangladesh-and-myanmar/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 06:08:44 +0000 admin http://www.sharenow.com/2013/05/16/wfp-ready-to-assist-as-cyclone-mahasen-hits-bangladesh-and-myanmar/ Amid roaring winds and dark clouds on the horizon as Cyclone Mahasen rolls in, WFP staff in Bangladesh and Myanmar stand ready to respond where necessary.

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]]> http://www.sharenow.com/2013/05/16/wfp-ready-to-assist-as-cyclone-mahasen-hits-bangladesh-and-myanmar/feed/ 0 Life As A 10-Year-Old Refugee From Syria http://www.sharenow.com/2013/05/14/life-as-a-10-year-old-refugee-from-syria/ http://www.sharenow.com/2013/05/14/life-as-a-10-year-old-refugee-from-syria/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 08:04:13 +0000 admin http://www.sharenow.com/2013/05/14/life-as-a-10-year-old-refugee-from-syria/ Toqa’s collection of woolly hats is one of few things she took with her when her family fled their home in Syria. It’s one of few reminders of the home she left behind before coming to Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan. Determined to become a doctor, she’s at the top of her class at school where WFP provides nutritious snacks to children like her.

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]]> http://www.sharenow.com/2013/05/14/life-as-a-10-year-old-refugee-from-syria/feed/ 0 How A Mother From Syria Kept Her Family Fed http://www.sharenow.com/2013/05/10/how-a-mother-from-syria-kept-her-family-fed/ http://www.sharenow.com/2013/05/10/how-a-mother-from-syria-kept-her-family-fed/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 13:45:30 +0000 admin http://www.sharenow.com/2013/05/10/how-a-mother-from-syria-kept-her-family-fed/ For Syrian mothers like Um Abdou, life has a refugee has been a battle to keep her family from going hungry. She didn’t hesitate to sell all her jewelry for food, but it wasn’t long before she had no more to sell. Today, food vouchers provided by WFP are putting food on the table for her and around 300,000 other refugees in Lebanon as they wait for the conflict to end.

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]]> http://www.sharenow.com/2013/05/10/how-a-mother-from-syria-kept-her-family-fed/feed/ 0 Rome-Based UN Agencies Are Honorary Citizens Of Rome http://www.sharenow.com/2013/04/24/rome-based-un-agencies-are-honorary-citizens-of-rome/ http://www.sharenow.com/2013/04/24/rome-based-un-agencies-are-honorary-citizens-of-rome/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:27:23 +0000 admin http://www.sharenow.com/2013/04/24/rome-based-un-agencies-are-honorary-citizens-of-rome/ The three Rome-based UN agencies – the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and WFP – were made honorary citizens of Rome during a ceremony to commemorate the 2,766th anniversary of the "eternal city’s" founding.

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]]> http://www.sharenow.com/2013/04/24/rome-based-un-agencies-are-honorary-citizens-of-rome/feed/ 0 Tweets Highlight Dublin Conference On Climate Justice http://www.sharenow.com/2013/04/16/tweets-highlight-dublin-conference-on-climate-justice/ http://www.sharenow.com/2013/04/16/tweets-highlight-dublin-conference-on-climate-justice/#comments Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:34:40 +0000 admin http://www.sharenow.com/2013/04/16/tweets-highlight-dublin-conference-on-climate-justice/ DUBLIN–The "Hunger – Nutrition – Climate Justice" conference in Dublin, Ireland has seen two days of stimulating debate and discussion between high-level policy makers and grassroots groups about the challenge of maintaining food security for vulnerable communities facing climate change that is dramatically affecting their lives.

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]]> http://www.sharenow.com/2013/04/16/tweets-highlight-dublin-conference-on-climate-justice/feed/ 0 WFP And The Turkish Red Crescent Double Support To Vulnerable Syrians In Turkey http://www.sharenow.com/2013/04/16/wfp-and-the-turkish-red-crescent-double-support-to-vulnerable-syrians-in-turkey/ http://www.sharenow.com/2013/04/16/wfp-and-the-turkish-red-crescent-double-support-to-vulnerable-syrians-in-turkey/#comments Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:52:00 +0000 admin http://www.sharenow.com/2013/04/16/wfp-and-the-turkish-red-crescent-double-support-to-vulnerable-syrians-in-turkey/ ANKARA – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in partnership with the Turkish Red Crescent (TRC) expanded today its food assistance programme into four new camps in Turkey doubling the number of Syrians that it now supports in Turkish camps to 80,000 people.

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]]> http://www.sharenow.com/2013/04/16/wfp-and-the-turkish-red-crescent-double-support-to-vulnerable-syrians-in-turkey/feed/ 0 Africa’s “Great Green Wall” Bears Fruit For Families In Senegal http://www.sharenow.com/2013/04/11/africa%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cgreat-green-wall%e2%80%9d-bears-fruit-for-families-in-senegal/ http://www.sharenow.com/2013/04/11/africa%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cgreat-green-wall%e2%80%9d-bears-fruit-for-families-in-senegal/#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:24:02 +0000 admin http://www.sharenow.com/2013/04/11/africa%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cgreat-green-wall%e2%80%9d-bears-fruit-for-families-in-senegal/ Efforts to hold back the Sahara Desert with a wall of vegetation are paying off in Senegal where communities harvest fresh fruits and vegetables from the dry desert sands. Providing a much-needed source of nutrition to areas where malnutrition is high, the project also helps communities cope with the rising threat of climate change.

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]]> http://www.sharenow.com/2013/04/11/africa%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cgreat-green-wall%e2%80%9d-bears-fruit-for-families-in-senegal/feed/ 0 Building Walls Against Wind And Water Erosion In Senegal http://www.sharenow.com/2013/04/11/building-walls-against-wind-and-water-erosion-in-senegal/ http://www.sharenow.com/2013/04/11/building-walls-against-wind-and-water-erosion-in-senegal/#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:44:02 +0000 admin http://www.sharenow.com/2013/04/11/building-walls-against-wind-and-water-erosion-in-senegal/ Years of deforestation have left communities like Kaymor prey to floodwaters which wash away the top soil, carving canyons and ravines through the middle of villages. With the help of food assistance, residents are learning how  to channel the water by building barriers that protect both the top soil and their homes.

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