World Food Programme

Recently we were sent an email by Shelby Blitz with a link to her blog, she's a Blogger against Hunger. Every now and again, we discover yet another Blogger going about their business quietly, helping to feed the hungry worldwide by raising either funds or awareness (or both!).

On a cold winter day in the mountains on the western edge of Tajikistan, Rajabgul Rasulova has just had a rare taste of happiness in her life of hardscrabble survival. Thanks to a WFP food distribution, she now has something to put on the table for the family New Year celebration.

With the Holiday’s in full effect this is the perfect time for giving back! As many of you may have noticed the Limited Time item Cameroon Platter of Plenty has made it’s way into Yoville. ...

Here are 12 things that you can do right now, this holiday season, to help fight against hunger. Most of them you can do online, without even setting foot outside your home. What’s more, many of them don’t involve you spending anything at all.

Nearly 50,000 Filipinos evacuated from their homes in the shadow of the Mount Mayon volcano received some holiday cheer from WFP on Thursday, when packages of high energy biscuits arrived in evacuation centres set up by the government.

WFP, the world’s largest humanitarian organisation, and Zynga, the world’s largest social games company, are teaming up to give hungry kids in Cameroon the chance of a better future.

This holiday season, maybe the most meaningful gift you can give is to a person you've never met before... the Gift of Hope.

School children in Kurdistan, northern Iraq, recently started receiving a daily snack designed by WFP to boost their nutritional intake and to help them concentrate. A nervous Robin Lodge went along to see whether the children liked the new date bars.

This video is a submission for the Hunger Bites video contest for the World Food Programme @ www.wfp.org. There are a billion hungry people in the world and a billion of the world's population is connected online. ...

The MERET project, run by the Ethiopian government and WFP, helps poor farmers manage land better, so that it becomes more productive and does not become desert. Hiwot Gebre-Tsadkan, one of MERET's beneficiaries, explains how it changed her life. Watch video

Because finding firewood is so dangerous, women sometimes try to cook with very little fuel, resulting in undercooked food.

Kids in the Moroto district of Karamoja were forever getting in trouble for stealing wood from village fences. They did this to feed the fire on which their WFP school meals were cooked. Fuel efficient SAFE stoves mean they don’t have to any more.