Organization Overview
The World Food Program is the frontline United Nations agency mandated to eradicate hunger worldwide. The United Nations General Assembly acted in 1961 to establish the World Food Program. WFP began its mission of eradicating hunger in January 1963 with the opening of its HQ in Rome. WFP is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. Each year, on average, WFP feeds more than 90 million people in more than 70 countries.
WFP fights hunger primarily in two ways. In disasters, it provides emergency food aid and where people are chronically hungry, WFP provides food-for-work, food for health and food for education assistance, helping people to become self-reliant. Every day, WFP emergency response teams rush supplies to millions of the victims strife and disasters, be it war, ethnic conflict, political strife, flood, drought or crop failure. Such crises consume most of WFP’s resources. All contributions to WFP are voluntary. They come from donor nations, non-governmental organizations, corporations and individuals.
WFP Tajikistan is the largest international agency in the country with the capacity to undertake programs in all regions through its four field offices and through the Country Office in the capital.
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Mr. Adham Musallam
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