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!

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!

It doesn’t take a lot of money to make a big difference in the fight against hunger. For the price of things we buy every day, you could feed a classroom full of children or a family of refugees. Here are a few examples to show how little it costs to change lives and build futures.

Originally posted from Hunger Price Tags

As world leaders from the Group of Eight meet this weekend to discuss global food security, WFP Head of Private Partnerships Nancy Roman writes about the exciting inroads against hunger that become possible when governments team up with business.

Originally posted from G8: Public and Private Coming Together

Families in the Somilaland region of northern Somalia are enjoying a more balanced diet thanks to food vouchers which they can use to shop for goods like camel and goat meat at the local market. By allowing them to buy directly from local traders, the project is also a boost for the region’s economy.

Originally posted from Food Vouchers Boost Nutrition And Markets In Somalia

As many countries around the world prepare to celebrate Mother’s Day, Public Information Officer Silke Buhr reflects on some of the challenges faced by women in Afghanistan.

Originally posted from The Strength of Afghan Mothers

In the first part of our series of features on Hunger, we established that it is the World’s Greatest Solvable Problem  and listed six strategies that WFP is already using to solve it. In this one, we look at why solving hunger is crucial for the next generation of the world’s inhabitants.
 

Originally posted from 6 Reasons The Next Generation Needs Us To Solve Hunger

On the second day of her visit to the drought-hit country of Niger, WFP Executive Director Ertharin Cousin met families who are providing for themselves by working on projects that will protect them from hunger down the line. Travelling alongside UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres, the WFP chief sent back this blog post to tell us about her trip.

Originally posted from Blog From Niger: Inroads Against Hunger And Drought