WFP is the world’s largest humanitarian organization and the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against global hunger. It reaches some 90 million people in an average of 80 countries each year, using food aid to meet emergency needs and support economic development and social development. Since it was founded in 1963, WFP has fed more than 1.4 billion of the world’s poorest people, and invested more than US$30 billion in development and emergency relief. It is funded completely by voluntary donations.
In addition to emergency work, WFP feeds more than 20 million schoolchildren in more than 70 countries with school meals and take-home rations. Child enrollment increased on average by 14 percent in schools with WFP school feeding programmes. The donation that SAP is making on behalf of its employee volunteers will be directed to these school feeding programmes.
The World Food Programme has a great deal of content on its website, including a news section and photo galleries that show the difference they’re making.
