About the World Food Program USA
World Food Program USA (WFP USA) is a nonprofit organization that builds support in the United States to end global hunger. WFP USA engages individuals and organizations, shapes public policy and generates resources for the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) and other hunger relief operations.
As part of the world's largest humanitarian agency and front-line agency combating hunger, the World Food Program USA represents a 50-year track record of successfully delivering life-saving food to some of the most impoverished people in the world.
WFP USA upholds the global mission to meet emergency food needs and support economic and social development. The agency also provides the necessary logistics to provided aid to the right people, at the right time and in the right place.
The World Food Program USA works to put hunger at the center of the international agenda by promoting policies, strategies and operations that directly benefit the poor and hungry. It also assists victims of natural disasters, displaced people and the world's hungry poor.
How does the World Food Program USA fight hunger?
- Rescue: The World Food Program USA stands on a permanent state of alert, ready to mobilize life-saving food to natural and man-made disaster areas.
- Rapid Reaction: The World Food Progam USA's rapid response team develops contingency plans to move food and humanitarian aid within hours of a disaster striking.
- Rehabilitation: World Food Program USA food saves lives and gets disaster-stricken people back on their feet.
- Deterrence: Malnutrition gnaws away at the most valuable asset in any country's development: its children and its workers. Food is one of the most effective deterrents against long-term poverty.
WFP USA is a registered 501(c)(3) organization, as recognized by the Internal Revenue Service. Learn more about the global humanitarian work of the World Food Programme and World Food Program USA click here to make a donation.