Unverified non-profit organisation

Set-up in 1963, WFP is the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against global hunger. WFP uses its food to: meet emergency needs and support economic and social development. It also provides the logistics support necessary to get food aid to the right people at the right time and in the right place. In 2002, WFP fed 72 million people in 82 countries, including most of the world’s refugees and internally displaced people. In Iraq, WFP launched an emergency operation in early 2008, to provide food assistance for up to 750,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and some 360,000 people who have fled to Syria. It is helping the Government to monitor and analyse people’s access, utilisation and availability of food – resulting in establishment of a Food Security Unit in Iraq ’s ministry.

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