introduction: world food programme
...nd more than 43 million metric tonnes of food to combat hunger, promote economic and social development and provide relief assistance in emergencies throughout the world. The frontline in the battle against hunger runs from sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East to Latin America and Asia. Here, WFP food aid reaches the world's poorest nations as: Food-for-Life: in emergencies, WFP provides fast, efficient, life-sustaining relief to millions of people who are the victims of the ever rising number of natural or man-made disasters. This includes refugees and internally displaced persons. A decade ago, two out of three tonnes of the food aid provided by WFP was used for development projects. Today, 80 percent of WFP resources are used for relief activities. Food-for-Growth: these projects target needy people at the most critical times of their lives. Babies, school children, pregnant and breast-feeding women and the elderly. In these projects, WFP tries to use food aid as a preventive medicine. Each day, WFP school feeding projects use food aid to encourage millions of hungry children to school. In ...