WFP Dispatches Food To Sri Lankan Safe Zone

Contrary to the claims of the pro-LTTE "carnival barkers," The WFP in association with the Government of Sri Lanka and the ICRC has taken measures to dispatch emergency food aid to the area where tens of...

Another humanitarian tragedy that fails to hit the prime time

While the war on Gaza preoccupies the attention of international media, human rights organisations international community and public at large another humanitarian tragedy of equal gravity unfolds largely...

UN transports another food shipment to displaced people in war-torn northern ...

"The United Nations has shipped another convoy of emergency food supplies to the Vanni region of northern Sri Lanka, as part of its ongoing humanitarian aid effort assisting thousands of people forced from their...

UN agency appeals for $140 million to feed Zimbabweans in crisis

" 9 October 2008 – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today appealed for $140 million to feed some 4 million Zimbabweans over the next six months, warning that without more funds, the agency will...

Nepal: UN agency says 2.5 million in need of immediate food aid

Along recent political expectations over the formation of a new governmetn, food insecurity is the most alarming and pressing problem in Tibet now. " Nepal: UN agency says 2.5 million in need of immediate food aid Richard Bennett of the human rights office (OHCHR) in...

UN says N Korea hunger worst since 1990s

Worst flooding has brought worst ever hunger in Communist controlled North Korea. Flooding affected  large part of the country and Korea has been forced to seek help from World Food Programme. It has stopped...

Saudi Arabia gives 500 million dollars to world food appeal

""The World Food Programme has met its extraordinary call for 755 million dollars to compensate for the increased costs of food and fuel with a 500 million dollar donation from The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia," said a statement.The WFP, which operates in 78 countries and helps...

World Food Program: Crisis…What Crisis?

OPINION"Audit Reveals U.N.’s World Food Program Has More Than $1.22 Billion StockpileThis Week’s Top Scrooge - May 2, 2008By ALEXANDERIt’s been a while since I’ve published a This...

UN Ineffective Against Armed Bandits in Darfur

Claiming banditry against food trucks as the root cause, officials with the United Nation’s World Food Program announced today they are cutting rations to the people of Sudan’s Darfur...

RI`s envoy dedicated Alba-Nizza public health center in Klaten

"Rome-based Indonesian Ambassador to Italy, Malta and Cyprus as well as to the FAO, IFAD and WFP Susanto Sutoyo on Monday dedicated the Alba-Nizza public health center in Gantiwarno sub-district, Klaten regency, Central Java province, built with the assistance of the people...

WFP: Free Rice – play, learn & donate!

Enhancing your vocabulary gives better command of the language and makes you more articulate. Being able to express yourself better can be a competitive advantage for school goers to those who seek to...

UN: Rising food price hits relief efforts

The food prices have seen dramatic increase in the last 15 months. The wheat prices have nearly doubled while the overall food price have gone up by 75% since year 2000 according to the World Bank. As reported by...

Hunger Bytes! WFP and YouTube viral video competition

Poverty is always a human rights violation.  

Blood Diamonds Are Forever, Sierra Leone's Poor Must Not Be written by Joh...

Crossing the bridge to Koidu-Sefadu – home to the Sierra Leone blood diamonds – I stared at hundreds of people standing knee-deep in the river. I asked Dr. Barrie, “What are those people doing?” “Mining...

Global Action Foundation funds National Organization for Welbody Malnutrition...

Read the letter from Dan Kelly to his Medical College Dean, Dr.Kuperman, for a sense of the reality of extreme poverty in Sierra Leone today. "Tonight I boarded a plane at Freetown International Airport. Its...

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