The opening of the new Hunger Games film offers a unique opportunity. The movie series, which is produced by LionsGate Films, has previously teamed with the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and Feeding America. WFP is the largest organization fighting world hunger while Feeding America is this nation’s food aid network.
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A generation of children in South Sudan are growing up in hunger and without education. There is hope for some children with school feeding provided by the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
So far this year, WFP has fed about 192,000 children in South Sudan with meals in schools that are still open. When WFP sees an area where hunger rates are high, they set up school feeding to help. It’s a food for education initiative.
If you can feed children at school, that encourages parents to send their children. The promise of a free meal at school means everything in area where hunger and poverty are so high. School meals are considered a safety net for the poor.
Around 20,000 school girls are receiving take-home rations as well. This improves school attendance rates among girls, which are historically lower.
Overall, the school feeding is an effective way to feed children and allow them to stay in school. This keeps the children safe from recruitment into armed forces and other dangers.
WFP relies on voluntary donations to keep school feeding and other food programs operating. They need donations more than ever in areas struck by conflict like South Sudan.
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A generation of children in South Sudan are growing up in hunger and without education. There is hope for some children with school feeding provided by the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
So far this year, WFP has fed about 192,000 children in South Sudan with meals in schools that are still open. When WFP sees an area where hunger rates are high, they set up school feeding to help. It’s a food for education initiative.
If you can feed children at school, that encourages parents to send their children. The promise of a free meal at school means everything in area where hunger and poverty are so high. School meals are considered a safety net for the poor.
Around 20,000 school girls are receiving take-home rations as well. This improves school attendance rates among girls, which are historically lower.
Overall, the school feeding is an effective way to feed children and allow them to stay in school. This keeps the children safe from recruitment into armed forces and other dangers.
WFP relies on voluntary donations to keep school feeding and other food programs operating. They need donations more than ever in areas struck by conflict like South Sudan.
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As millions of people are displaced and suffering in war-torn Iraq, humanitarian aid groups need to communicate quickly. Lives depend on the fast movement of aid to the right areas
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As fighting continues in the Eastern Ukraine, there is also a growing food emergency. As winter approaches a deepening humanitarian crisis is feared.
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The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said today its refugee feeding program in Algeria has gotten a boost from Spain. Around EUR 1.5 million from the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AECID) will provide wheat flour, barley, rice and other nutritious food.
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Nutrition often does not make headlines. It may not appear to be something that can change the world, but actually it can. So let’s listen for a moment about rice, because there are some important findings the UN World Food Programme (WFP) wants to share.
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We have to do more to stop the Ebola virus. Everyone knows that starts at the source in West Africa.
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Armed groups in the Central African Republic continue to wage war. United Nations peacekeeping soldiers have even come under attack. A recent ambush in the capital Bangui claimed the life of one Pakistani UN peacekeeper.
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The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is bringing food to the war victims. Spokesperson Marwa Awad said on Wednesday that WFP had dispatched 51 trucks of food via Baghdad to the town of Khalidiya. Most of the displaced from Heet are taking refuge there in schools and buildings.
The foods being provided include lentils, wheat, rice and cooking oil. A local charity assists with the food distributions. More supplies are en route from WFP to help the displaced families. Some Iraqis have been uprooted multiple times as the conflict has escalated.
Over 1.8 million people have been forced to flee since ISIS launched attacks earlier this year. Almost half of the displaced have arrived in the northern Kurdistan region of Iraq. Food and other aid is being provided. Kurdistan is also home to refugees from the war in Syria.
Awad says that WFP is seeking more funding to ensure the pipeline of food is maintained. WFP relies entirely on voluntary donations from governments and the public.
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