For the first time in months, food aid has reached Luhansk in the war-torn Eastern Ukraine. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said today a 12-truck convoy arrived in Luhansk earlier this week. The trucks brought rations enough to feed 7,000 people.
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This Thanksgiving season take a moment and let your mind wander back to the autumn of 1947. That’s when the Greatest Generation again rose to meet a challenge and help those in need.
They started the tradition of setting aside a plate at the Thanksgiving table for a “silent guest,” one of the world’s hungry.
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The UN World Food Programme (WFP), in a press release yesterday, says that 3.9 million in South Sudan are living in hunger.
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The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said Monday the number of Ethiopians needing food aid to survive had risen to 8.2 million. This is a rapid escalation in hunger since the beginning of the year, when around 2.5 million were needing food assistance.
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The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said this week it’s started a distribution of food to 7,000 war victims in Eastern Ukraine. Teaming up with the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), the food will be given to hospital patients and students.
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The new Hunger Games film, Mockingjay – Part 2, is inspiring food drives across the country. The film opens this week. Cinemas and schools are using the event to set up food collections to feed the hungry in their communities.
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The UN World Food Programme (WFP), in a report released today, is warning of a hunger emergency because of a major El Niño event. The weather patterns of El Niño lead to warmer temperatures and drought.
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The UN World Food Programme (WFP), in a report released today, says that food ration cuts quickly have a drastic impact on Syrian refugees. In September, WFP did an assessment on Syrian families in Jordan who were no longer receiving WFP assistance.
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The Islamic State terrorist group (ISIS), which has claimed responsibility for the attacks in Paris, France on Friday, continues to starve hundreds of thousands of civilians in Syria and Iraq. The terrorist group is blocking humanitarian aid from reaching civilians in the two war-torn countries.
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Over 2 million people in Central America are going hungry because of a severe drought, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said today. Crop losses have been significant.
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Author William Lambers 