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 * World Food Programme **

World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian help organisation. WFP was established in around 1960-1961 and has its headquarter in Rome, in Italy. The organisation fights against hunger worldwide and has more than 80 country offices around the world.

Their goal is to eradicate hunger and malnutrition. WFP’s goal is to save lives in refugee and other emergency situations, improve the nutrition and quality of life of the most vulnerable people at critical times in their lives, and help build assets and promote the self-reliance of poor people and communities.

WFP focuses its food assistance on those who are most vulnerable to hunger, which most means women, children, the sick and the elderly. In 2005, food assistance was provided to 58,2 million children and in 2006, WFP assisted 58,8 million hungry children.

In 2006, WFP distributed 4 million metric tons of food to 87,8 million people in 78 countries. They where aided in emergency operations in especially Somalia, Lebanon and Sudan. WFP had their largest country operation in Sudan, and the programme reached 6,4 million people. The second and third largest WFP operations were Ethiopia and Kenya.