WFP Food Force - The Game, The Reality, How to Help

Both the Food Force game and the website show what WFP does to fight hunger.

Food Force explains how to fight hunger in the following ways:

Step-by-step, the game shows what WFP does during hunger emergencies such as the Asian tsunami of 2004 and, in the longer term, to help communities overcome and rebuild after such crises.

Missions 2 to 5 explain how immediate help is delivered. In Mission 2: Food Pacs, Joe Zaki helps the player determine what kind and how much food aid should be delivered. In Mission 3: The Air Drop, funds have started to flow and WFP begins to deliver food. Mission 4: Locate and Dispatch introduces the concept of international collaboration in fighting hunger and the appeal to the international community. In Mission 5: The Food Run, Rachel Scott, Food Force’s logistic officer, guides the player across land to complete the food supply line.

Mission Six looks beyond the immediate crisis to show how food aid can help disaster-hit communities rebuild. Impoverished communities hit by floods or drought are too busy seeking food to focus on rebuilding infrastructure vital for redevelopment; long-term food aid projects enable them to escape the poverty cycle and establish sustainable futures.

WFP runs a variety of long-term aid projects including School Feeding, Food for Work, Food for Training, Nutritional Programmes and HIV/AIDS Prevention, all of which are represented in Mission 6: Future Farming. The player manages these programs to ensure that Sheylan can become productive and self-sufficient.

Both crisis appeals and long-term programs require support from governments, industry, communities and individuals. The How to Help section of the Food Force website suggests things that students, teachers, schools and communities can do to help end hunger.

Lesson Plans

The following lesson plans, each containing objectives, concepts and activities, were designed for international use by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization's "Feeding Minds, Fighting Hunger" education programme.

Since grade levels and student ages are defined differently around the world, teachers should examine the plans, choose which level best suits their students -- primary, intermediate or secondary -- and then fine-tune their chosen plan.