The World Food Program and Friends of the World Food Program

The World Food Program (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian organization and the United Nations’ frontline agency for addressing urgent hunger needs. WFP has a deep field presence in about 80 countries and provides food assistance to around 90 million people.

Friends of the World Food Program (Friends of WFP) is a US-based nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that focuses on building support in the United States for WFP and other hunger relief operations. Friends of WFP unites companies, foundations, and individuals committed to solving world hunger. Our education, advocacy, and fundraising efforts in the United States support WFP’s life-saving global food assistance and development programs.

Global Hunger Facts
• More than 920 million people go hungry every day – this represents one out of every seven people in the world.
• Every day, 25,000 people die of hunger; 14,000 of them are children.
• Hunger is the number one threat in the world today, killing more people than AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined.
• Every six seconds a child somewhere dies of hunger.
• On any given day, WFP has an average of 30 ships, 5,000 trucks and 70 aircrafts delivering food across the globe.
• WFP provides the resources to carry out essential programs to break the cycle of hunger in the world’s poorest countries: from projects that provide nutrition for mothers and infants, to school meal programs that lead to better academic attendance and performance.
• WFP provides long-term solutions by training local governments to continue vital programs on their own.  They also support local communities by purchasing local food and by providing food in exchange for work on infrastructure projects.
• As the UN’s leader in emergency logistics, the WFP is the world’s frontline humanitarian agency for addressing urgent hunger needs in global emergencies. WFP’s largest operation is in Sudan, where monthly food rations are provided to approximately one-third of the Darfur population.