Help millions of North Koreans facing food crisis

Summary

North Korea is in its worst food crisis since the famine in the 1990s. Help the World Food Program (WFP) feed millions of vulnerable people suffering from high food prices and succesive poor harvests.

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

In the late 1990s, 2 million people died of hunger in North Korea. And now, once again, millions of North Koreans are going hungry. Households are reducing their food intake and children are becoming malnurished. Already in North Korea, 37 percent of children under 6 have stunted growth and 23 percent are underweight. Food assistance to reach the hungry, especially nutritionally vulnerable groups such as children and women, is urgently needed.

How will this project solve this problem?

WFP is working to promote the health and nutritional status of the most vulnerable groups, including children and pregnant and lactating women, through its Mother and Child Health, School Feeding and Local Food Production programs.

Potential Long Term Impact

WFP will expand food distribution to reach up to 6.4 million people from the current 1.2 million. Your contribution will help WFP close the gap of the current shortfall of 1.66 million tons in cereals, the largest deficit in 7 years.

Project Message

Many people are resorting to scavenging for wild fruits and vegetables, including seaweed, grass and roots, contributing to an apparent rise in malnutrition. We are running against the clock here.
- Jean-Pierre de Margerie, WFP Country Director for North Korea

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).