Conflict
'We just ran': Pakistan floods destroy homes, fields and food supplies
Story | 2 October 2025
We are the largest humanitarian organization saving and changing lives worldwide
We bring life-saving relief in emergencies and use food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impacts of climate change.
WFP in numbers
- 319 Million people facing acute hunger
- Over 124 Million people fed by WFP in 2024
- US5ドル.7B WFP needs to reach vulnerable people
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Our work
Our presence in over 120 countries and territories includes a broad range of activities to save and change lives, with the ultimate goal of a world with zero hunger
On 21 March 2019, after the passage of Cyclone Idai, the WFP helicopter reaches Guaraguara, Mozambique with a load of High Energy Biscuits. WFP/Deborah Nguyen
Emergencies
Eustaquia from the Uru Murato Indigenous community. WFP assisted vulnerable people in Oruro, La Paz and Cochabamba through Food Assistance for Assets programmes in Bolivia. WFP/Morelia Eróstegui
Cash-based transfers
Kaka Marabou writing her name on the school blackboard in Yakoua, Lake Chad. Refugees, displaced people and other poor communities in the Lake Chad basin are dependent on humanitarian assistance for survival and access to basic education is also limited. WFP/Giulio d'Adamo
Gender equality
Yemen. Sultan's mother feeds him a nutritious peanut paste at home. He suffers from moderate acute malnutrition. Thanks to the supplementary food he is receiving from WFP, Sultan has started to gain weight and has more energy than before. But he still needs treatment. His family also receive WFP food assistance - flour, dried beans, oil, sugar and salt. WFP/Mohammed Awadh
Nutrition
At Gonaives, Haiti, a schoolgirl is receiving daily hot meals thanks to WFP school feeding programme: it's considered the largest food safety net in the country. Every school day, WFP delivers hot meals to close to 300,000 children each day across more than 1,000 schools, mainly public, throughout the country. WFP/Antoine Vallas
School based programmes
Engineer supervising the rehabilitation of one of the bakeries in Sakhour area, considered one of the largest in Aleppo, Syria. When this bakery will be put into production, it will be able to provide 12 MT of bread - enough to feed approximately 60,000 people with fresh bread. WFP/Hussam Al Saleh
Social Protection
The heavy monsoon rains flooded the northern and northeastern districts of Bangladesh in July 2020. Floodwater has inundated Sayema's house making it very difficult to live a normal life. She and her family suffer from food shortages. The World Food Programme offers cash assistance to almost 6000 families in Kurigram who are most vulnerable and in need of help. WFP/Mehedi Rahman
Climate action
During the covid-19 pandemic, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, WFP engaged with women from the host community and Rohingya refugees through its livelihood program to make masks that were distributed by local government and humanitarian agencies giving them a monthly stipend, marketable job training and financial literacy, and a scholarship to start a business. WFP/Nalifa Mehelin
Resilience building
In Kibera, Kenya, WFP has implemented Hydroponic Farming at Olympic Primary School, with great participation of students and the local community. WFP/Martin Karimi
Innovation
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