#UN World Food Programme

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In Episode 2 of the series, Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys with the UN World Food Programme to the border between the African countries of Chad and Sudan, where over 1 million refugees have fled into Chad from the Sudan civil war. He visits a project where refugees and Chadians are working together for water harvesting, food production, and massive land restoration. Could this be a new model for how refugees can be integrated into nations while healing degraded landscapes?

EPISODE 1: Inside Africa's Food Forest Mega Project

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WFP Resilience Building:

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Thanks to Evelyn Fey of the WFP media team for camera and drone videography

Special thanks to BOMBINO ( https://www.bombinomus... ) for use of music tracks.

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Errol mar volt szo itt, de ebben meg is mutatjak kozelrol hogy is mukodik. Latvanyos.

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AP, via NPR:

WASHINGTON — A top U.N. official said Friday that hard-hit northern Gaza was now in "full-blown famine" after more than six months of war between Israel and Hamas and severe Israeli restrictions on food deliveries to the Palestinian territory. Cindy McCain, the American director of the U.N. World Food Program, became the most prominent international official so far to declare that trapped civilians in the most cut-off part of Gaza had gone over the brink into famine. "It's horror," McCain told NBC's "Meet the Press" in an interview to air Sunday. "There is famine — full-blown famine — in the north, and it's moving its way south." She said a cease-fire and a greatly increased flow of aid through land and sea routes was essential to confronting the growing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, home to 2.3 million people.

According to World Food Programme director Cindy McCain (the spouse of the late John McCain), northern Gaza is in a full-on famine.

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Israeli assault has caused ‘apocalyptic’ situation in northern Gaza, UN warns

Key officials say the entire population of northern Gaza ‘at imminent risk of dying from disease, famine and violence’

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[historyforfuture]

The biden_netanyahoo starvation war results . I wish them both burn in the deep heart of hell

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The UN will be cutting food aid to Yemen and enforcing collective punishment because Yemen is standing by Palestine. This is a war crime & a breach of international humanitarian law.

[vyorei]

The risk of famine in Gaza is shooting straight up, there's not enough food coming in and you can't grow and tend crops when you and your land are being bombarded to hell, and when the soil and water is corrupted by what comes out of them bombs.

(When you throw famine in with genocide it hits a particular note with me given what happened to my own people. Too many folk think Ireland just "ran out of potatoes" and starved, unaware we couldn't access more food due to obstruction by the British Occupiers who exported our crops and arrested us for stealing from "their crops" to try and feed our families, and it resulted in massive migration in an attempt to survive, so many people didn't make it across the Atlantic after leaving Ireland that these ships became known as Coffin Ships.

The "potato famine" was a genocide, watered down to a palatable phrase that's become a disgusting joke today, just like attempts to oust the Occupation from the North resulted in it being dubbed "the Troubles". So when you're wondering why Ireland cares so fucking much, this is why, like I've said before: it's been done to us. All of it. And we're fucking furious seeing it happening to Palestine.)

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Freerice is an educational trivia game that provides 10 grains of rice to the UN World Food Programme with every correct answer.

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[📹 Israeli occupation warplanes strike the coastal Rashid street in Gaza, a location where displaced civilians wait for the arrival of food aid trucks.]

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💥ISRAELI OCCUPATION BOMBS AREA FOR CIVILIANS TO RECEIVE AID AS UN AGENCIES WARN OF DISEASE AND STARVATION💥

📹 Israeli occupation warplanes strike the coastal Rashid street in Gaza, a location where displaced civilians wait for the arrival of food aid trucks.

At the same time, the United Nations' various humanitarian aid agencies published a press release warning of the deadly combination of hunger, malnutrition, and disease.

In the press release, the heads of the World Food Programme, UNICEF, the World Health Organization, warn that, without the ability to produce or purchase food, "the entire population of Gaza relies on aid to survive," meaning all 2.3 million people.

"But humanitarian aid alone cannot meet the essential needs of the people of Gaza," the statement says.

The agency heads say that despite what aid they have delivered into Gaza, despite "extraordinarily difficult conditions" the quantities "fall far short of what is needed to prevent a deadly combination of hunger, malnutrition and disease."

"The shortage of food, clean water, and medical assistance is particularly severe in the northern areas," the agency heads added.

The UN agency heads emphasize that aid access is severely limited by Israel's closure of all but two border crossings, through which all the aid, and the Israeli checks of every vehicle, must happen through the two crossings in the south.

Once inside, efforts to distribute aid are hampered by Israeli bombardments, "endangering the lives of ordinary Gazans, and the UN and other humanitarian personnel striving to help them."

“People in Gaza risk dying of hunger just miles from trucks filled with food,” said WFP Executive Director Cindy McCain. “Every hour lost puts countless lives at risk. We can keep famine at bay but only if we can deliver sufficient supplies and have safe access to everyone in need, wherever they are.”

The UN agency heads point to the latest Integrated Food Security and Nutrition Phase Classification (IPC) report, which found "devastating" levels of food insecurity.

"Virtually all Palestinians in Gaza are skipping meals every day while many adults go hungry so children can eat," the statement added, with report also warning of outright famine.

The WFP says that since October 7th, the food aid program has served over 900'000 Palestinians, but warns it's nowhere near enough.

"The conflict has also damaged or destroyed essential water, sanitation and health infrastructure and services, and limited capacity to treat severe malnutrition and infectious disease outbreaks," the statement says.

The humanitarian agencies are also setting off alarms over Gaza's 355'000 children under the age of 5, with UNICEF projecting "child wasting" in the next few weeks, calling it "the most threatening form of malnutrition in children," could increase by nearly 30% and affect up to 10'000 children in Gaza.

“Children at high risk of dying from malnutrition and disease desperately need medical treatment, clean water and sanitation services, but the conditions on the ground do not allow us to safely reach children and families in need,” said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell.

“Some of the material we desperately need to repair and increase water supply remain restricted from entering Gaza. The lives of children and their families are hanging in the balance. Every minute counts," she added.

UNICEF has also been warning that children in Gaza are accessing far too little water, well below "the recommended requirements for survival."

UNICEF says its provided water to over 1.3 million people, and medical supplies, including 600'000 vaccine doses, and even provided cash transfers to over half a million households, but warns much more is needed to address "desperate" conditions.

The WHO and it's partners say they've been working to support Gaza's healthcare system, delivering supplies, equipment, medicines and fuel, as well as coordinating medical teams and disease surveillance, with more than a dozen "high-risk missions" delivering supplies to hospitals in Gaza, as well as establishing two kitchens which are serving 1'200 meals per day.

Still, the UN agencies are warning that none of it is anywhere near enough.

“People in Gaza are suffering from a lack of food, water, medicines and adequate healthcare. Famine will make an already terrible situation catastrophic because sick people are more likely to succumb to starvation and starving people are more vulnerable to disease”, said WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “We need unimpeded, safe access to deliver aid and a humanitarian ceasefire to prevent further death and suffering.”

The UN agencies are also asking Israel to give authorization to use nearby ports food and other aid to be delivered into Gaza, pointing to Ashdod as a potential port Israel could allow agencies to use to deliver critically necessary supplies.

“The flow of aid has been a trickle in comparison to a sea of humanitarian needs,” said Phillipe Lazzarini, Commissioner General for the UN Palestine Refugee Agency (UNRWA). “Humanitarian aid will not be enough to reverse the worsening hunger among the population. Commercial supplies are a must to allow the markets and private sector to re-open and provide an alternative to food accessibility.”

The press release finishes by emphasizing the urgency of lifting barriers and restrictions Israel is keeping on aid, making quick deliveries of essential goods next to impossible. The agency heads also "reiterated the call for a humanitarian ceasefire to enable this vitally important roll-out of a massive, multi-agency humanitarian operation," in order to respond to the crises in Gaza.

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OP isn't exaggerating. There are countless of videos of the IDF shooting at crowds of Palestinians trying to find food for themselves and their starving families. The UN World Food Programme even suspended delivering aid because the IDF won't stop shooting people.

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Freerice

Freerice - Website Launched 2007

(Image Copyright Freerice and the United Nations World Food Programme)

Freerice, originally penned FreeRice, is a web-based application that allows users to participate in a myriad of categories, multiple choice quizzes whose correct answers translate to donations of rice to communities in need. For every question the user answers correctly at any category, at any difficulty level, results in 10 grains of rice donated via the United Nations World Food Programme. 

I remember first being introduced to this program when I was in high school in the early 2010s and there's a nice feeling about seeing a production like this still going along almost a couple decades after launch. Language arts teachers specifically at my school really enjoyed its use to help with vocabulary and as the only French student who didn't get into honors society for French I was pleased that it at least allowed my struggling foreign language student self pass. I also remember having competitions between myself and my classmates, especially my one friend in the class, to see who could earn the most grains of rice during our computer lab/ library time session. The website now seems to play to the strength of kind hearts and competitive teens in hosting events that challenge users to participate in gaining a goal grain count. It would be interesting given the global events happening currently between Gaza and Congo to see how organizations like Freerice respond in their Food Programme efforts.

Rather than this being an application used in frequency in a public library space when they would probably much rather indulge in Roblox, I could see this being something that we discuss in conversation with school teachers. Considering the range of categories a user of the site can quiz with, there could be a range of opportunities in the classroom and perhaps beyond given proper planning and initiative. 

FREERICE. Freerice. (n.d.). https://freerice.com/home 

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Top UN officials urge Israel to ease civilian suffering in areas under their attack

Further details from the two senior UN agency officials who have written to Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Unicef’s Catherine Russell and the World Food Programme’s Cindy McCain.

They called on all parties to exercise maximum restraint to protect civilians and critical civilian services, Reuters reports, in its news scoop of seeing the letter that was sent. They wrote that the UN and aid groups:

"Need unequivocal security assurances to ensure a safe operating environment … the rules of engagement and their implementation in practice, in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and Lebanon, must reflect the IDF (Israel Defense Forces)’s obligation and commitment to respect, protect, and facilitate humanitarian action," said Russell, a former senior aide to Joe Biden, and McCain, Biden’s former ambassador to the UN agencies for food and agriculture in Rome.

They urgently appealed for an effective humanitarian notification system that the Israeli military “acknowledges and supports”, citing the success of using area-specific pauses in fighting to allow for the polio vaccination of children in Gaza.

"We request this be applied consistently to facilitate humanitarian action at scale," they wrote.

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UN’s World Food Programme Says Russia Has Not Offered It Free Grain. #un...

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Haiti is in dire straits right now, and I encourage anyone to give what they can.

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Samer AbdelJaber tells of a UN mission to bring food to Al-Ahli Arab Hospital and the surrounding areas

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Our olive tree is growing thanks to your donations and our hope is unbend. However, every passing minute could bring the worst news to Falastin. Getting food in Gaza is getting harder, and IOF forcing World Food Programme (run by UN) out of Gaza with their attack will not help the situation.

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