Official account of the United Nations World Food Programme (@WFP) in #DRC 🇨🇩 Saving lives and Changing lives to achieve #ZeroHunger
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In Butembo🇨🇩, @OCHA's Deputy director of Crisis response Max Schott highlights what keeps the Ebola response moving & reach affected people: meals for patients, families and health workers, @WFP_UNHAS ✈️ & logistics services.
Continued funding is critical to sustain the response.
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📍 🇨🇩 Ituri, DRC
As the Ebola response expands, speed matters.
This EU-supported UNHAS flight ✈️ from Bunia to Kisangani is transporting humanitarian responders and critical medical supplies, helping teams reach affected areas quickly and keeping the response connected.
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🇨🇩Reading and writing can also strengthen food security.
At 55, Véronique, a mother in Sud-Ubangi, is learning skills that help her better manage her livelihood & diversify her income.
That’s why @WFP supports functional literacy as part of its resilience work. #MondayMotivation
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WFP DRC retweeted
🇨🇫🤝🇨🇩 En visite à #Zongo, le Représentant du @UNHCR_DRC @MauriceAz a échangé avec les réfugiés centrafricains et constaté de près leurs réalités.
Grâce à l'appui du @WFPDRC des familles vulnérables bénéficient d'une assistance Cash💵 pour répondre à leurs besoins essentiels
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📍Butembo, #DRCongo🇨🇩
“Food is crucial and plays a determining role in patients’ recovery,” says nurse manager Bienfait at the #Kitatumba Ebola Treatment Centre.
Alongside treatment, @WFP food assistance🍛helps patients regain strength and helps caregivers stay by their side👇.
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Food security is no longer just a humanitarian issue. It is increasingly linked to economic stability, resilience, migration, climate adaptation and global security. That reality shaped discussions throughout #UNGA81.
Here are 4️⃣ key takeaways from the week. bit.ly/4rDHBdP
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“It’s an emergency on top of an emergency.”
@WFP is supporting the Government-led #Ebola response, including through food assistance, logistics, and the construction of treatment infrastructure.
🎥 WFP 🇨🇩Deputy CD @Evelyn_Etti explains how this complements the wider response.
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📍 DRC| North-Kivu
Dr Elisabeth Matt, Director of Musienene General Hospital, encourages anyone experiencing symptoms to seek medical care promptly.
Alongside the medical response, WFP provides food assistance to patients, caregivers and health workers at the treatment centre.
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“Medicines go hand in hand with food. You cannot recover properly without eating,” says Annita, a cook at the Oicha Ebola treatment centre.
With support from 🇨🇦, 🇯🇵 and the 🇺🇸, @WFP provides 🍲 daily hot meals to patients and health workers at the Ebola treatment centre.
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📍Katwa, 🇨🇩
“When I arrived at the Ebola Treatment Centre, I had no strength left,” Isabelle recalls.
Today, she is gradually regaining her energy thanks to medical care and the 🍲 meals provided by @WFP.
🎦Hear her message to those who may be hesitant to seek medical care.👇
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#MondayMotivation from Boboyo's South-Ubangi 🇨🇩.
Through @WFP’s Food for Assets programme, Bosco earns cash to meet his family’s immediate needs while his community builds a literacy centre for women and girls.
He also creates eco-friendly pots that help reforest his community.
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🇨🇩 “When children have eaten at school, they are calmer,” says Julienne Mawazo.
A school cook and mother of two pupils, she sees the care behind each plate and the relief it brings.
In Rutshuru, @WFP-supported school meals help children learn & families breathe a little easier.
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In the #DRC, Ebola adds pressure to communities already affected by displacement, conflict and loss of livelihoods. ✈️ @WFP_UNHAS provides vital air transport to help humanitarian teams reach affected areas quickly and support the Ebola response.
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