The World Food Program
Their Mission
WFP is the food aid arm of the United Nations system. Food aid is one of the many instruments that can help to promote food security, which is defined as access of all people at all times to the food needed for an active and healthy life. ยน The policies governing the use of World Food Programme food aid must be oriented towards the objective of eradicating hunger and poverty. The ultimate objective of food aid should be the elimination of the need for food aid.
Like many parts of the Sahel region, the Kayes region of Mali is feeling the effects of the recent drought
These children from Mali were first in line to receive food during a WFP distribution at a refugee camp in Soum Province, Burkina Faso. Their families have come here in search of refugee from conflict across the border.
A group of families arrive in South Sudan capital of Juba after a long journey home from Sudan.