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The World Food Programme [a] (WFP) is an international organization within the United Nations that provides food assistance worldwide. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization [2] [3] and the leading provider of school meals. [4] Founded in 1961, WFP is headquartered in Rome and has offices in 87 countries. [5]
The Working Families Party (WFP) is a progressive minor political party in the United States, founded in New York in 1998. There are active chapters in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
The Winnipeg Free Press (or WFP; founded as the Manitoba Free Press) is a daily (excluding Sunday) broadsheet newspaper in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.It provides coverage of local, provincial, national, and international news, as well as current events in sports, business, and entertainment and various consumer-oriented features, such as homes and automobiles appear on a weekly basis.
The Alliance was founded by the Rome-based food agencies – the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), [37] UN World Food Programme (WFP), [38] International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), [39] – and Bioversity International. [40]
World Food Day is an international day celebrated every year worldwide on October 16 to commemorate the date of the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in 1945. The day is celebrated widely by many other organizations concerned with hunger and food security , including the World Food Programme , the World Health ...
The United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) is a humanitarian platform and network of hubs strategically located around the world, that provide supply chain solutions to the international humanitarian community.
WFP was founded in 1983, as the Contra War raged in Nicaragua. The organization established an ongoing presence in this Central American country and sent U.S. citizens to accompany the Nicaraguan people in war zones and to document the "human face" of the Reagan administration's military policy. It is widely credited with pioneering this tactic ...
The second word in its name was originally capitalized as "FreeRice". On November 20, 2007, the WFP launched a campaign to "feed a child for Thanksgiving", encouraging internet users "to take time out from traditionally the busiest online shopping period of the year and help the hungry" by playing the game. [2]