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AMOUNT OF ISSUES SOLD: |
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4353 |
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NUMBER OF MEALS FOR THE CHILDEREN IN MALAWI: |
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174120 |
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WHAT DOES WFP DO?
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian organisation fighting hunger worldwide. In 2009 WFP aimed to feed 108 million people – over half of them children – in 74 countries.
One of WFP’s projects is the school meals programme, which provides a free school lunch or snack to poor children in school. The concept is simple: food attracts hungry children to school, and they get an education that can help them break out of the cycle of hunger and poverty. This is especially important for girls, who are the first to be kept at home in poor families. For many parents, this is a reason for sending their children to school rather than out to work. It costs only 20 Euro cents to provide a child with one nourishing meal.
Hunger is the greatest threat to health worldwide. It claims more lives each year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. Over one billion people in the world are undernourished, most of them women and children. Across the globe a child dies of hunger every six seconds.
For more information about WFP
visit www.wfp.org
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