In 2006, Richard Wilcox, Director of Business Planning at the World Food Programme, launched a drought insurance contract in the international financial market for Ethiopia, securing contingency funding to protect vulnerable populations against severe drought.
WFP is the worlds' largest humanitarian organization and the UN's frontline emergency relief agency..each year we feed around 90 million people in more than 80 countries. We are the ones trucking convoys of food across mine fields in Afghanistan, choppering supplies through snowstorms in Pakistan and hurricanes in Haiti and dropping aid out of the backs of C-130 planes into Sudan.
In 2006, Richard Wilcox, Director of Business Planning at the World Food Programme, launched a drought insurance contract in the international financial market for Ethiopia, securing contingency funding to protect vulnerable populations against severe drought.
The UN World Food Programme has completed food aid airdrops into the DRC after rains, insecurity and cost made road transportation difficult. The Antonov-12 aircraft dropped food to some 34,700 people over a three-week period in the south-eastern Katanga Province. Video fed by EBU on 09-MAY-2006 at 10:18-10:21 GMT.
Four more stories from the frontline:
Held hostage in an African desert...a terrifying helicopter relief flight in Central America...surfing? no thanks! a young Aussie finds her true passion in a relief camp in the Asian jungle
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living on the dark side: coping with tension and fear in Congo.
A funding shortage has led to the halving of food rations for Sudanese who live in Darfur's camps for displaced people. While the UN World Food Programme appeals for more international help, which may be on the horizon, the people of Darfur face a daily battle of hunger and insecurity. EVN video fed by EBU on 16-MAY-2006 at 15:34-15:38 GMT.
As food prices rise, many of us can give up desserts or meat once or twice a week but fore those living on less than one dollar a day the aren't many choices
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