Scouts rise to the Food Force challenge
Just ahead of World Youth Day 2007, thousands of Scouts from all over the world gathered in London. Food Force was one of many activities at the Jamboree festivities.

How do kids see WFP?
Hundreds of children across the world have sent in their pictures for the annual WFP Children’s Art Competition. Here you can see the work of some of the 2007 finalists. The artists are poor children who eat at school thanks to WFP's school feeding programmes.

Putting aid in the hands of women in Darfur
Seven out of ten of the world's hungry are women and girls. Emilia Casella went to Otash camp in south Darfur and shadowed one woman on a WFP food distribution day.

WFP stars love Food Force!
See the stories of Drew Barrymore and Paul Tergat, two WFP celebrity partners who are using their fame to help the hungry.

Behind the scenes in Helsinki
The sound recordings for the Finnish version of Food Force took place in Helsinki in early November.

Recycling WFP packaging materials
WFP's deliveries are useful even long after the food has been eaten, with these useful and fun ways of recycling packaging materials.

WFP chief meets young Sudanese returnee
On a trip to south Sudan, WFP Executive Director James Morris meets one returnee who had a lucky escape on his long trip back home and who also found a new family. Simon Crittle picks up the story of One O'Clock, which first appeared on the WFP website in September 2005.

Walk the World 2006
On Sunday May 21, more than 700,000 people took to the streets of more than 100 countries to walk five kilometres in support of "Fight Hunger: Walk the World".

Suffering in parched Kenya
Children in Kenya are fighting for survival following months of drought which has gripped parts of the country. As crops die and animal carcasses pile up, Kenyans hope that April will bring the long rains and some respite.

Kenyans stare hunger in the face
Millions of people require aid as drought grips East Africa. Crops are failing, cattle are dying and now the effects of hunger are seeping through to the population.

International Women's Day
Following the celebrations for International Women's Day on 8 March, we take a look at how WFP food aid is helping women in Haiti to fulfill their potential and take control of their lives.

Feeding Haiti schoolkids
A WFP meal at school makes all the difference to children in Haiti, where tens of thousands of children die each year from malnutrition.

Looking back on 2005
From the Indian Ocean tsunami to the hunger crisis in Niger, from hurricanes in Central America to the earthquake in Pakistan, WFP has risen to a series of exceptional challenges in 2005.

After Hurrican Stan
Large numbers of people living in the Guatemalan highlands are suffering from the after-effects of Hurricane Stan. WFP has launched a US$14.1 million emergency operation to assist 285,000 people with relief food.

Dropping food into west Darfur
Many people in Golo, west Darfur, rely on WFP for food. Violence and a lack of access make delivering food aid difficult, so WFP recently undertook its first airdrops to the community.

Young hearing-impaired Afghans learn literacy
Many hearing-impaired children in northwest Afghanistan were not taught to read and write -- until this program began in May.

Niger food crisis affects young children
Over a million people in Niger are suffering food shortages caused by last year's low rainfall and locust swarms, and young children are particularly at risk from malnutrition and disease. WFP plans to almost triple the number of people it feeds in the country.

Feeding the hungry of southern Sudan
Despite a peace agreement signed in January to end one of Africa's longest conflicts, southern Sudan continues to face major food shortages. Two decades of civil war have caused extreme poverty and malnutrition, together with a lack of services and basic infrastructure and pratically no economic growth. At the beginning of this year, WFP appealed for US$300 million to feed 3.2 million people in the south, east and so-called transitional areas of Sudan.

Walk the world
See pictures of the global walk that took place on 12 June to end child hunger.

Bill Clinton visits tsunami survivors
On May 30th, former US President Bill Clinton made a daylong tour of Jantho, a camp for internally displaced people 50 kilometres southeast of the Banda Aceh region in Indonesia's Aceh province.

Local teams improve WFP's base at Banda Aceh
WFP's Banda Aceh office is a base for air and sea logistics operations delivering food aid to nearly 600,000 tsunami and earthquake survivors.

Olympic rowing stars reunite for WFP
Britain's National Lottery Legends Sprint will take place during the Rowing World Cup on Saturday 28 May in Eton. Donations can be made now by logging on to steveredgrave.com. If you are in the UK, you can also call 0870 7567979 or text the word "DONATE" to 81333.

WFP develops aid hub at Sudan's El Obeid Airport
The El Obeid Logistics Hub serves operations in both the war-torn Darfur region of western Sudan and in the newly-peaceful south, which is still facing major food shortages.

WFP brings food aid to flooded Afghanistan areas
WFP's School Feeding program reaches children in the remotest corners of Afghanistan

Help after the tsunami in Sumatra

Picking up the pieces in Somalia after the tsunami

School Feeding in Cape Verde, Africa
Schoolchildren recieve WFP food aid in Cape Verde.

Food Aid for the hungry in Darfur
Due to the civil conflict, many people in Darfur have had to flee their homes. They rely almost entirely on food aid to survive.