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Laureate of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. 🇺🇳🌾🍛 The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency working towards #ZeroHunger.
Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Organization Worldwidewfp.orgJoined March 2009

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On any given day, WFP teams coordinate an average of 5,600 trucks🚚, 100 aircraft✈️, 30 ships🚢 , and a network of 650 warehouses🏚️ to deliver assistance to people all around the world. Learn more: bit.ly/3u7BiSg
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6 years ago an accident affecting Jaafar's left leg created mobility issues that made it hard for him to find a stable job. “As long as I’m working I feel at rest – being unemployed doesn’t feel right,” he tells us. Jaafar and many other people helped us plant 1,000,000+ trees.
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People with disabilities continue to face multiple societal barriers to accessing the things they need. Inclusion is a human right for all, not a privilege for some. Share 🔄 This #IDPD2022
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Meet Youssef from #Syria. He dreams of becoming a computer engineer.🧑‍💻 Healthy school meals from help him keep fueling his dreams 💭💛 We cannot achieve a world with #ZeroHunger without inclusive and equitable social protection for all. #IDPD2022
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Soil ↔️ Food ↔️ Food ↔️ Soil #Soils grow 95% of the food we eat and are essential for a healthy planet. 💚 Ahead of #WorldSoilDay, how will you nourish the ground beneath our feet?
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📸Chayabou is one of hundreds of farmers in #Niger boosting his harvests with half-moon farming. Agricultural productivity has increased 🌱 up to 3 times, and in Chayabou's hometown of Rafa, child malnutrition has nearly been eliminated.💪
Chayabou, a farmer in Niger, poses with his grown millet. Behind him can been seen half-moon pits used to improve crop production in Niger's increasingly severe climate.
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During emergencies, girls and women are at greater risk of food insecurity, malnutrition and gender-based violence. EVERY person has the right to adequate and nutritious food and a life without violence. #16Days #OrangeTheWorld
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Fueled by WFP school meals, Naffisatou is determined to learn ✏️, determined to stay in school 🏫, and determined to help other students like herself 🧠🍚💪 What makes you determined? 👇Tell us below👇
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Feeling the pinch of rising costs on your holiday shopping? While inflation is impacting families from all walks of life, millions more people around the world have been pushed into extreme forms of hunger because of rising costs. bit.ly/3UoAnrQ
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Two-year-old Liben is among half a million children and women receiving WFP support for malnutrition in drought-affected parts of Ethiopia. Millions of people in the #HornofAfrica are struggling to cope with a severe drought that's wiped out livelihoods.
Liben, 2, eats from a package of Plumpy-Sup, a highly nutritious supplementary food, after screening positive for malnutrition at a WFP-supported clinic.
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"Let's not say, I can't. Let's say, yes we can."💪 At 62 years old, Alilia is turning land into hope and opportunity in #Guatemala. Despite increasingly severe weather, with WFP support, farmers are saving soil, conserving water, and planting for a #ZeroHunger future.🌱💚💪
In the photo: Alilia Mateo Felipe sells her tomatoes at the local market in Plan de Jocote, Guatemala. Alilia is the ‘promoter’ of the Plan de Jocote community that, with WFP's help, is growing drought-resistant crops, making organic pesticides and are now prepared for the recurring dry season.
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Here's what we know. Members of families who cannot always secure their next meal are under an increased risk of gender-based violence. We cannot accept this. WFP works around the clock to deliver assistance to those facing hunger around the globe to protect them.
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Since June, large swathes of #Nigeria have flooded. Across West and Central Africa - already in the grips of the worst hunger crisis in a decade - floods have impacted 5 million people and decimated crops. WFP is providing support to over 420,000 people like Laruba, pictured.
Laruba Umaru, 45, gathers firewood in Yobe State, Nigeria, on 1 October 2022. The World Food Programme provides lifesaving food assistance to over 100 000 people, who have been affected by the floods, in Yobe state.
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📹An aerial view of WFP's food distribution site in📍 Naseerabad, Balochistan. Three months into the emergency, the crisis is far from over. Thanks to our donors 🇺🇸🇯🇵🇦🇪🇨🇦🇰🇷🇦🇺🇫🇷🇩🇪, WFP is able to provide emergency food & cash assistance to families in Pakistan. 🙏
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In a country where 2.8 million children are out of school, every day these ⤵️ students attend class is a win.💛 Since introducing WFP school meals, attendance among girls at this school in #SouthSudan doubled.📚🍚💪
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Adequate nutritious food is a basic human need. We believe it’s also the foundation of a full and dignified life. 💚🥬🍏
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Family after family seeks shelter – in schools or even in open fields - as violence upends lives in parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Cash grants offer a crucial lifeline to displaced people like Marie.
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After 4 consecutive failed rainy season, 22 million people are facing a severe hunger crisis across the Horn of Africa. is providing support, but more resources are required to help those most in need & prevent widespread loss of lives.
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