Help millions of North Koreans facing food crisis

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Summary

North Korea is in its worst food crisis since the famine in the 1990s. Help the World Food Program (WFP) feed millions of vulnerable people suffering from high food prices and succesive poor harvests.

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

In the late 1990s, 2 million people died of hunger in North Korea. And now, once again, millions of North Koreans are going hungry. Households are reducing their food intake and children are becoming malnurished. Already in North Korea, 37 percent of children under 6 have stunted growth and 23 percent are underweight. Food assistance to reach the hungry, especially nutritionally vulnerable groups such as children and women, is urgently needed.

Activities

WFP is working to promote the health and nutritional status of the most vulnerable groups, including children and pregnant and lactating women, through its Mother and Child Health, School Feeding and Local Food Production programs.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $167
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $29,833
Total Funding Goal: $30,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

WFP will expand food distribution to reach up to 6.4 million people from the current 1.2 million. Your contribution will help WFP close the gap of the current shortfall of 1.66 million tons in cereals, the largest deficit in 7 years.

Project Message

Many people are resorting to scavenging for wild fruits and vegetables, including seaweed, grass and roots, contributing to an apparent rise in malnutrition. We are running against the clock here.
- Jean-Pierre de Margerie, WFP Country Director for North Korea

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Meredith Slater,
Development Associate, Friends of the WFP
1819 L St. NW
Suite 900
Washington, DC 20036
United States
1-2025301694
Email:

Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organization

Friends of the World Food Program Logo Friends of the World Food Program
1819 L St. NW
Suite 900
Washington, DC 20036
United States
202.530.1694
http://www.friendsofwfp.org

Learn more about Friends of the World Food Program and the project team.


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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Korea, North and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Korea, North, read the Human Development Report on Korea, North or the Wikipedia entry for Korea, North.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on August 21, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 21, 2008.

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