Welcome
to WFP in Pakistan
The United Nations World Food
Programme (WFP) assists approximately four million
food insecure people in Pakistan annually.
The Food Aid arm of the United Nations does not
only save lives in emergencies, it also uses food
asan incentive to attract the downtrodden to gain
education and healthcare and work
to build assets for a better future.
"A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He
just sees food."
Pearl S. Buck
What WFP does in Pakistan
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Education
WFP's assistance to
education is aimed at
promoting primary
education for girls in
rural areas and
increasing attendance
rates in selected rural
primary schools. WFP
uses food aid as an
incentive to encourage
poor families to send
their girls to school
instead keeping them at
home- usually to help
with household chores.
Each girl takes home
four-litre tin of edible
oil if she attends
school for 20 days in a
month. WFP assists
344,000 girls attending
3003 schools in poor
districts in NWFP,
Balochistan, Sindh,
Punjab and Azad Jammu &
Kashmir (AJK)..
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Health
WFP's health
programme promoting
safe motherhood in
poor food insecure
rural areas of
Pakistan is designed
to promote the
attendance of poor
expectant mothers at
rural government
health centers by
giving 4 litre tins
of vegetable oil at
critical milestones
during pregnancy and
after birth. The
women are encouraged
to obtain antenatal
and postnatal
checkups,
vaccinations for
themselves and their
infants and receive
health education and
family planning
messages. The agency
provides assistance
to over 187,000
rural women in Sindh,
Punjab and NWFP who
benefited from the
programme. Results
show that attendance
and vaccination
rates of women have
increased remarkably
as a result of WFP
support.
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Afghan Refugees
The turbulent political history of Afghanistan in the last quarter of the century, due to foreign occupation and civil wars, prompted tides of refugees into Pakistan. With international support, the country hosted the world's largest refugee population for more than two decades, feeding more than three million refugees between 1980 and 1996. Thereafter it was scaled down to feed only the vulnerable groups under a safety-net programme. Post 9/11 also saw influx of 180,000 new refugees which were supported by WFP until 2004 WFP assistance to refugees related intervention exceeded over a billion dollar.
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Earthquake:
WFP's immediately responded to 8 October earthquake through an Emergency Operation (EMOP) and several Special Operations related to logistics, communications and air operation to reach and feed 1,000,000 persons in earthquake affected areas of AJK and NWFP. Many locations were remote that only helicopters, four-wheel vehicles or pack mules were the only means of transportation for reaching these people in distress. This successful operation was followed by a two years recovery and rehabilitation programme protracted relief and recovery operation.
Floods in Balochistan: WFP provided food assistance to 126,000 persons immediately after the floods of 2007 to save their lives that was followed by a threemonth emergency operation to assist 18,500 households to rehabilitate their damaged agriculture.
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