Help millions of North Koreans facing food crisis
Help Food crisis in North Korea
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: $4,687
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $25,313
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
Organization
Friends of the World Food Program
1819 L St. NW Suite 900
Washington,
DC
20036
United States
202.530.1694
http://www.friendsofwfp.org
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Where this Project is Located
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North Korea
and can also be found under 
Health.
For more information about North Korea, read the Human Development Report on North Korea or the Wikipedia entry for North Korea.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 21, 2008
Latest Update from the Field
WFP Operation in DPRK Underfunded
By World Food Program - Headquarters, July 08, 2009 11:39 PM
WFP has received $75 million and would require $504 to reach all the hungry in the DPRK. Accordingly, WFP is scaling back its operation as announced at a press briefing in Beijing this morning.
Your assistance is urgently needed to help WFP continue to feed the people of North Korea living with hunger and poverty. Though the figures needed by WFP may seem discouraging, you CAN make a difference. With just $50, WFP can feed a child in school for a year; $100 can buy a stove for a school, helping to feed a class of students for years to come; and $250 can provide a cup of nutritious food to 1,000 people.
Thank you for your continued generosity. Your support provides not only life-saving food assistance, but also hope to those living in hunger.
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