2023 Recap: Unseen WFP Stories of Year

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The Odisha state government, WFP and the local community honor the new Solar4Resilience initiative
India: People from the Odisha state government, WFP, and the local community take part in a traditional blessing, for the new Solar4Resilience initiative - one of two WFP-backed projects to win an Earthshot prize in 2023. Photo: WFP/Shyamalima Kalita

For the World Food Programme, 2023 will go down as a year of unprecedented ration cuts amid chronic and historic funding shortfalls and rising needs. Globally, 68 percent of the total humanitarian financial requirement remains unmet.

As we enter 2024, more than 333 million people in 78 of the countries in which WFP operates face acute hunger: they do not know where their next meal is coming from.

On wfp.org, we report on the challenges facing people in countries such as Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Haiti. Through our storytelling and interviews, we also seek to show how, alongside our work in emergencies, our resilience-building activities empower people to create food security over the long term; saving lives and changing lives. Below are a few stories you may have missed...

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