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The World Food Programme [a] ( WFP) is an international organization within the United Nations that provides food assistance worldwide. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization [2] [3] and the leading provider of school meals. [4] Founded in 1961, WFP is headquartered in Rome and has offices in 80 countries. [5]
Cereals. Dairy. Meat. sugar. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations [note 1] ( FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security. Its Latin motto, fiat panis, translates to "let there be bread".
Nepal has more than 50% of people engaged in agriculture. Food grains contributed 76 percent of total crop production in 1988–89. In 1989-90 despite poor weather conditions and a lack of agricultural inputs, particularly fertilizer, there was a production increase of 5 percent. In fact, severe weather fluctuations often affected production ...
Nimdoma Sherpa was born into a poor Sherpa family in a remote Himalayan village in Nepal. At five years old, she began attending school through a school meals program run by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).
The UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) of copters, coordinated by the World Food Programme, has made 4,784 sorties in the eight months to remote areas. This has stopped for lack of funds, with the last delivery made on 31 December just as the worst of winter cold sets in, and confirmation of disease and death from lack of food in villages ...
FOOD FOR LIFE GLOBAL is now the largest food relief network in the world, eclipsing even the United Nations World Food Programme. Food For Life volunteers have provided food for the poor and homeless during several recent disasters. 2021 – Responding to the global covid-19 pandemic with freshly cooked meals in major cities across the world.
World Food Programme (WFP) – Late on 26 April, the WFP announced that a charter flight from its Dubai depot would carry food and aid supplies to Nepal on 28 April. [174] World Health Organization (WHO) – On 26 April, the WHO sent four inter-agency emergency health kits to hospitals in Nepal; each kit contained medical supplies sufficient to ...
Edita Horrell is a humanitarian aid worker employed by the World Food Programme (WFP), whom she has worked for since 2010. She has been deployed to Haiti, Niger, the Philippines, South Sudan, Zambia, Guinea, Nepal, Ecuador, Chad and the Central African Republic. [2] She began her career as a mountaineer following her ascent of Kilimanjaro in 2010.