Official account of the United Nations World Food Programme (@WFP) in #DRC 🇨🇩 Saving lives and Changing lives to achieve #ZeroHunger
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🇨🇩 Outbreaks don’t just spread disease.
They deepen hunger.
🚫Malnutrition = higher Ebola mortality
🚫Food systems & incomes collapse
🚫Infant feeding disrupted
🚨Hunger rises fast
🎥@WFP’s Dr. Kouhin-Néa Doré, explains the hidden link between Ebola & hunger.🙏@USForeignAssist
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🇨🇩Déplacé mais déterminé, Amani reconstruit sa vie à Makala. Grâce à l’aide du Programme alimentaire mondial & du Fonds humanitaire en RDC, ce père de 5 enfants retrouve espoir : dettes réduites, revenus relancés, enfants en meilleure santé.
🎥Il raconte son histoire. @OCHAFunds
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🇨🇩@WFP delivers critical logistics support in the fight against Ebola.
A new WFP-chartered aircraft ✈️from Entebbe to Bunia has delivered dozens of tons of medical supplies to @AfricaCDC, helping scale up the Ebola response and support affected communities in Ituri. @logcluster
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For @WFPDRC CD David Stevenson, the exchange provided a valuable opportunity to explore strategic approaches to strengthening market connectivity through growth corridors across a vast operating context.
Our sincere thanks to the @WorldBankAfrica's @AlbertZeufack.
Reflecting on a particularly productive week in #Kinshasa. Engaging with government counterparts and development partners on the Ebola response, discussing humanitarian solutions with the @WFPDRC Country Director, Mr. David Stevenson...
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WFP DRC retweeted
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Cette semaine, le Coordonnateur humanitaire par intérim, @DamienMama, accompagné de la cheffe de bureau d’OCHA, Carla Martinez, s’est rendu en #Ituri pour soutenir la riposte contre #Ebola aux côtés des autorités sanitaires 🇨🇩 et des partenaires humanitaires. #RDC. 1/6
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People facing #Ebola in #DRC have endured years of conflict, displacement and hunger. They know what is needed. Outbreaks are stopped when they lead.
To support, @WFP is working with partners to move health workers, supplies and food fast. Speed and solidarity can end an outbreak
Jun 9
The Ebola outbreak in #DRCongo has quickly spread from four to 25 health zones.
@WFP_UNHAS is supporting the response:
✈️ 90 flights so far
👥 680 frontline responders transported
📦 ~10 metric tons of critical supplies delivered
This frontline support is essential to contain the outbreak.
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🇨🇩In DRC’s Ebola response, @WFP logistics keeps the frontline moving:
✅ 680 responders transported
✅ 3,000 meals delivered to patients & health workers
✈️ Delivering supplies
📦 Positioning aid
👥 Deploying teams via @WFP_UNHAS
Behind the scenes, @WFPSupplyChain saves lives.
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“We fled our farms to escape gunfire,” says Justine, mother of three in South Kivu 🇨🇩.
Conflict cut off livelihoods and drove families into hunger.
Thanks to 🇺🇸Government support, food assistance helps them eat, stay safe & begin rebuilding their hope for a better future.
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WFP DRC retweeted
Jun 7
📍 #DRCongo Ebola is hitting communities already facing conflict, displacement and hunger.
WFP is responding by transporting humanitarian staff and critical cargo, supporting partners through @WFP_UNHAS, UNHRD and the @logcluster.
WFP’s Alain Kabore explains more ⬇️
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Hot meals are more than food: they restore dignity & support recovery. @WFP teams deliver nutritious meals to patients, helping strengthen their treatment & supporting health workers.
With support from @USForeignAssist, WFP stands with patients & families in Ituri, Beni & Goma.
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🇨🇩 Strengthening early warning in the DRC.
On June 4, the Government of DRC, @WFP and @metelsatrdc & @meteosuisse launched the #SOFF project to boost weather data & early warning systems.
Better data means earlier action — helping communities prepare for floods and droughts.🌍
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📍#NordUbangi 🇨🇩 600 people rolled up their sleeves to grow vegetable gardens. With @NorwayInDRC’s support 🇳🇴, they now receive cash from @WFP that helps them feed their families, sell their produce, and rebuild hope.🥬
Fresh vegetables on the table & new beginnings taking root.
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🇨🇩In Ituri & the Kivus, survival is already a daily struggle. Ebola makes it worse.
Conflict, displacement, lost harvests: 10M people face acute hunger.
@WFP is supporting the response with logistics & hot meals.
🎥@WFP_DRC CD David Stevenson, was live on @AJEnglish from Bunia
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🇨🇩In an Ebola ward, adequate nutrition can mean the difference between life & death.
In Bunia & Goma, @WFP is on the frontlines, delivering daily meals. In just one week, 464 hot meals were served, supporting patients & frontline health workers to stay in care and keep fighting.
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WFP DRC retweeted
Amid insecurity & access challenges, #UNHAS has deployed a dedicated helicopter as a backbone to the #Ebola response
45 flights in, we have moved over 2600kg of medical gear and 350 frontline responders including @WHO's @DrTedros directly to the crisis zone
Speed saves lives
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🇨🇩When crisis hits, giving cash empowers people.
Cash-based transfers allow #IDPs to buy what they actually need while boosting local economies.
It’s about dignity, flexibility & efficient support.
🎦@WFP's Atsuvi Gamli explains.
#DRCHumanitarianFund #InvestIHumanity @OCHAfunds
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