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Help millions of North Koreans facing food crisis

Help Food crisis in North Korea

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Help millions of North Koreans facing food crisis

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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. read updates from the field

How You Can Help

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$15 - Provide a month's supply of food to a person in need.
$21 - Provide a week's supply of food for a family of six.
$55 - Purchase 100 packages of High Energy Biscuits for malnurished children.
$92 - Provide nutrition for a pregnant or breastfeeding mother.

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

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.

Activities

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.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $5,550
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $24,450
Total Funding Goal: $30,000

Additional Documentation

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

Why this Project is Important

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

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Meredith Slater
Development Associate, Friends of the WFP
1819 L St. NW
Suite 900
Washington, DC 20036
United States
1-2025301694
Email:

Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organization

Friends of the World Food Program
1819 L St. NW Suite 900
Washington, DC 20036
United States
202.530.1694
http://www.friendsofwfp.org

Learn more about Friends of the World Food Program and the project team.

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in North Korea and can also be found under Health.

For more information about North Korea, read the Human Development Report on North Korea or the Wikipedia entry for North Korea.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 21, 2008

Latest Update from the Field

WFP Operation in DPRK Underfunded

By World Food Program - Headquarters, July 08, 2009 11:39 PM

Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, Amir Abdulla, of the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) today said that the agency’s emergency operation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) - which aims to assist 6.2 million vulnerable and hungry people - is grossly under-funded.

WFP has received $75 million and would require $504 to reach all the hungry in the DPRK. Accordingly, WFP is scaling back its operation as announced at a press briefing in Beijing this morning.

Your assistance is urgently needed to help WFP continue to feed the people of North Korea living with hunger and poverty. Though the figures needed by WFP may seem discouraging, you CAN make a difference. With just $50, WFP can feed a child in school for a year; $100 can buy a stove for a school, helping to feed a class of students for years to come; and $250 can provide a cup of nutritious food to 1,000 people.

Thank you for your continued generosity. Your support provides not only life-saving food assistance, but also hope to those living in hunger.

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