World Food Program USA wants school meals expanded
The World Food Program USA wants Congress to increase funding for the McGovern-Dole school meals program. The Congress will be making this decision in the upcoming Farm Bill legislation.The McGovern-Dole program, run by the...Read more...
DID SOUTH CAROLINA DEMOCRATS CONCOCT A DASTARDLY PLAN TO INDIRECTLY CHEAT MARK SANFORD OUT OF A WIN?
Maybe there is a story here, maybe there isn’t. Well, maybe this isn’t news to everyone, but it certainly is to me. Take a look and tell me what you think. As most of us know Mark Sanford is facing a brutally tough special...Read more...
COLOMBIA: Potential AIDS fallout from armed conflict
CARTAGENA, 25 November 2008 (PLUSNEWS) - On the days that Alberis Guerrero Peralta doesn't make soup to sell in her neighbourhood of Arjona, an impoverished community outside Cartagena, a city on Colombia's northern coast, she...Read more...
Dubai art auction raises Dh850,000 for hunger crisis in Pakistan
Tuesday, May 07, 2013 Dubai: In the first-of-its-kind auction aimed at supporting the work carried out by the UN World Food Programme (WFP) in Pakistan, 56 paintings by Pakistani masters and emerging artists were sold on May 1...Read more...
KFC Philippines raised Php 7.5 M to support WFP’s assistance efforts in Central Mindanao
In line with the 2012 World Hunger Relief project of Yum Brands in partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme, KFC Philippines once again joined the said campaign now on its 4th year. The World Hunger Relief aims...Read more...
Sudan: UN Provides Meals to Twice As Many Schools in Unity State This Year
By Bonifacio Taban Kuich, 3 May 2013 Bentiu — The World Food Programme (WFP) is providing an increasing number of meals to schools in South Sudan's Unity state as food shortages and malnutrition worsened in some areas The state...Read more...
Syrian aid crisis: running out of money
Syria (GAIN/MNN) ― From the Global Aid Network Blog comes a story that puts a human face to the Syrian refugee crisis: Lillith* was living in Homs, Syria with her husband, three children, and parents. Lillith's husband had a...Read more...
Bits and bytes in emergency sites
Source: World Food Programme Country: South Sudan (Republic of) A six month humanitarian operation will fit into 22 iPods By Katherine Ely, ETC Information Manager, South Sudan In most computer systems, a byte is a unit of data...Read more...
Lebanon: Helping to diversify diets through food vouchers
European Commission Humanitarian Aid department, World Food Programme Um Abdou was determined that her family would not go hungry. She knew things would be difficult when they left their home in shell-battered Aleppo. But she...Read more...
Innovative ICT helps aid workers in Afghanistan
Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), Innovative ICT helps aid workers in Afghanistan, 2 May 2013, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/5187aaf74.html [accessed 6 May 2013] This is not a UNHCR publication....Read more...
Yemen, WFP sign food assistance agreement
SANA'A, May 06 (Saba) - Education Ministry and the World Food Programme (WFP) signed on Monday an agreement on food assistance through an emergency safety net programme in 13 provinces. The agreement signed by the Education...Read more...
Conflict and returnees strain South Sudan food security
Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), Conflict and returnees strain South Sudan food security, 2 May 2013, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/5187a5cb4.html [accessed 6 May 2013] This is not a UNHCR...Read more...
Report: Qatar, other GCC nations fail to provide promised aid to Syria
Report: Qatar, other GCC nations fail to provide promised aid to Syria : Outstanding pledges from Gulf countries totaling some $650 million is imperiling humanitarian efforts in Syria, the Independent reports. As of May 1,...Read more...
Conflict cuts off civilians in DRC's Katanga
Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), Conflict cuts off civilians in DRC's Katanga, 2 May 2013, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/5187a4cb4.html [accessed 6 May 2013] This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR...Read more...
Tobacco Farmers Could Pivot to Chickpeas, Thanks to PepsiCo
In answer to a tidal wave of consumer demand for hummus, more U.S. farmers are beginning to grow chickpeas, and that trend comes with an interesting twist. As reported by David Kesmode of The Wall Street Journal, currently the...Read more...
Exclusive: Syrian aid in crisis as Gulf states renege on promises
Photo: Getty Images 05/05/13 By James Cusnick Millions of Syrian refugees face food rationing and cutbacks to critical medical programmes because oil-rich Gulf states have failed to deliver the funding they promised for...Read more...
UN Food Relief Agency Warns of 'Triangle of Death'
UN News]The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today warned that the security situation remains volatile in the so-called "Triangle of Death" - the area between the towns of Pweto, Mitwaba and Manono, in the Katanga...Read more...
Inside Politics: Working Families finds new favorite
Inside Politics: Working Families finds new favorite Times Union Copyright 2013 Times Union. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 9:49 pm, Sunday, May 5, 2013...Read more...
US Condemns Gruesome Massacre in Al-Bayda
More than 100 people were killed in Syria's al-Bayda The United States of America today expressed strong condemnation with the horrific reports that more than 100 people were killed May 2 in gruesome attacks on the coastal town...Read more...
Sudan prevented aid delivery to Gereida in South Darfur: UN
May 3, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Sudan revealed that the Sudanese government has denied aid agencies access to the town of Gereida in South Darfur and...Read more...
Minister Oda announces support for drought-affected people in Afghanistan
Minister Oda announces support for drought-affected people in Afghanistan Today, the Honourable Beverley J. Oda, Minister of International Cooperation, announced the details of Canada's support to the World Food Programme (WFP)...Read more...
Sri Lanka: International aid complicit in Colombo’s structural genocide of Eezham Tamils
The occupying Sri Lankan State has stepped up Sinhala colonization in the cultivation areas that lie between Nedungkea’ni and Ma’nalaa’ru in Mullaiththeevu district. Thousands of acres of cultivation lands, belonging to...Read more...
Labor's marching orders for City Council
For the left, there's a permanent tax hike for the top 4%. For the teachers union, a moratorium on school closings and co-locations with charter schools. For unionized hotel workers, no new hotels—anywhere in the five...Read more...
DR Congo UN food relief agency warns of Triangle of Death
3 May 2013 150 The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today warned that the security situation remains volatile in the so-called "Triangle of Death" - the area between the towns of Pweto, Mitwaba and Manono, in the...Read more...
Tonnes of maize locked up in Ashanti Region
Tonnes of maize are locked up in major growing areas of the Ashanti Region because of the delay on the part of the traditional bulk buyers to purchase the commodity. The World Food Programme (WFP) and the National Food Buffer...Read more...
Michael Kors hits Toronto! Inside the designer’s whirlwind trip
See the photos from Michael Kors’ Toronto visit » “Just when you thought you had everything, along comes a camouflage mink stole,” drawled Michael Kors, as a model glided into Holt Renfrew’s café in an outfit from his Fall 2013...Read more...
Free jailed journalists Watchdog urges China Iran Turkey
A leading press freedom watchdog has urged China, Iran, Turkey and Eritrea -- the four countries with the highest number of imprisoned journalists in the world -- to release them and end their repression. In a letter to the...Read more...
Watch Buzzfeeds 4 Secrets to Ruling the Internet
ABC News Friday 3rd May, 2013 Over 100 feared dead in Dafur gold mine collapse Mexico News.Net - Friday 3rd May, 2013 KHARTOUM, Sudan - Scores of miners are feared dead in a gold mine accident in the western region of Darfur,...Read more...
Conflict cuts off civilians in DRC's Katanga
Katanga: Tens of thousands of displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) Katanga Province have received little or no humanitarian aid in the months since having fled ongoing conflict. In one territory, Malemba...Read more...
Jean Ziegler: 'Biofuels a big cause of famine'
People around the world should stand up to their governments on the issue of food speculation and price dumping says Jean Ziegler, former UN Special Rapporteur for the Right to Food, in interview with DW.Read more...
