STOP Global Hunger!

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.

WFP's Key Achievements in 2013

• 80.9 million people reached with food assistance in 75 countries
• Undernutrition was reduced or stabilized for 7.2 million children under the age of 5
• Levels of acute malnutrition stabilized or fell in 90 percent of projects
• Household or community resilience was increased due to restoration or building of assets in 24 countries
• National capacity food security, disaster preparedness, school feeding and nutrition was increased in 15 countries
• The average lead time of 106 days to procure and move food to recipient countries was reduced by 71 percent

Beneficiaries

• 67.9 million women
• 4.2 million refugees
• 8.9 million internally displaced people
• .5 million returnees
• 7.8 million children are receiving sepcialized nutritional support
• 18.6 million children receiving school meals or take home rations
• 15.1 million people receiving WFP food as an incentive to build assets
• 7.9 million people receiving assistance in the form of cash and/or vouchers in programmes and countries making up14 percent of WFP’s work

3.1 million metric tons of food were distributed

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• WFP's key achievements in 2013