Hunger - Do They Have Enough?
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The World Food Programme (WFP) is the food assistance branch of the United Nations and the world's largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger. It was established in 1961 and provides food to around 90 million people per year. In 2007, WFP and YUM! Brands launched the World Hunger Relief Week campaign, attracting nearly 35,000 restaurants worldwide and raising $16 million for hunger relief. Currently, WFP is working in the Horn of Africa region experiencing a severe drought and famine, aiming to feed one person per day for 50 US cents.
Hunger - Do They Have Enough?
- 2. Introduction World Food Programme • What is World Food Programme? • WFP is a food aid branch of the United Nation. • The world largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger issue worldwide. • Provides food to an average of 90 millions people per year. • Headquarter in Rome with more than 80 country offices around the world. • When is World Food Programme established? • 1960 - Food and Agricultural Organization(FAO) Conference – George McGovern, director of US Food for Peace Programme, proposed to establish a multilateral food aid program. • 1961 – WFP was established. • 1963 – WFP was formally established by FAO and the United Nation General Assembly on a three-year experimental basis. • 1965- The programme was extended to a continuing basis.
- 3. Contributions World Food Programme • In 2007, the World Food Programme launched the first annual World Hunger Relief Week together with YUM! Brands, the world’s largest restaurant company. The World Hunger Relief Week is a global campaign to promote awareness about hunger, engage volunteers, and raise critically needed funds to help WFP serve the world's areas of greatest need. • World Hunger Relief Week 2007 attracted nearly 35,000 restaurants around the world and brought millions of support from customers, employees, franchisees and their families, with intention to end hunger. • Nearly one million Yum!, KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Long John Silver's and A&W All American Food employees, franchisees and their families volunteered to aid hunger relief efforts in communities worldwide for nearly 40 million hours. At the same time, they helped to raise $16 million throughout the World Hunger Relief Week initiative for the World Food Programme and other hunger relief agencies around the world.
- 4. Contributions World Food Programme in Kenya • WFP, the largest implementer of school feeding programmes in the world had reached an average of 22 million children in school in around 70 countries globally. WFP’s school meals programme in Kenya is one of the largest and most long- standing project since 1980. • From 1999 onwards, due to the increased frequency of food crises resulting from drought and political violence and the introduction of free compulsory primary education in 2003, the programme in Kenya expanded significantly, peaking at 1.85 million children in over 5,000 schools. • In 2008, the Government of Kenya took over responsibility for half the programme, while WFP focused on providing meals in primary schools with the lowest education indicators in the most food insecure part of the country. Government of Kenya has high commitment to education. A new programme of Home-Grown School Feeding and a new policy on School Health and Nutrition herald an integrated, cross-sectoral approach, including commitment to providing a ‘balanced’ meal at school.
- 5. Contributions World Food Programme (Current project) • Currently, the World Food Programme is working in the Horn of Africa by streaming food into the countries of Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti and Uganda. These nations were subjected to a severe drought situation, declared a famine situation by the UN on 20 July 2011. • This drought has been declared as the "worst drought" of the Horn of Africa in 60 years. Approximately 12 million people are in danger of death due to starvation. • The Program aims to feed one hungry person for a day in this region with just 50 US cents or 35 eurocents. African Children queuing up for food
- 6. Impacts Impact of World Food Programme’s policy • Schools that offered school meals were on average 28% higher enrolment rates than those who did not. The difference was even more marked in the early grades. • The rate of completion of primary education was also higher in schools offering school meals, especially for girls, and a higher percentage of children from primary schools that offered meals moved on to secondary school after graduating. • School meals had a positive effect on attendance rates and on scores in examinations in the final year of primary school. • Educational outcomes have become more positive in urban areas than in rural semi-arid and arid areas. • In schools with nearly as many women teachers as men, the number of girls and boys are also closer to parity. • School meals have make a significant and positive contribution to reducing students’ hunger and improving nutritional intake
- 7. Credits Source credits: • http://home.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/reports/wfp230095.pdf • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Food_Programme#Funding • http://www.wfp.org/about/corporate-information/history • http://www.wfp.org Source credits: • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_Food_Programme_in_Liberia_002.jpg • http://jenssondergaard.com/Humanity_frame.htm • http://trendsupdates.com/the-un-world-food-program-addresses-urban-hunger- crisis-in-africa/ • http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/organizations/w/world_fo od_program/index.html