KYIV, Ukraine ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine signed a memorandum today at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Gdansk to extend their school meals cooperation into the 2026/2027 school year, after helping to provide 40 million free, nutritious school meals to 275,000 children in frontline regions of Ukraine in 2025/2026.
CAIRO¨C In 2025, Germany reaffirmed its role as an indispensable partner of the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in the Middle East and North Africa. Amid mounting global challenges and increasing pressure on international aid budgets, Germany¡¯s steadfast support enabled Â鶹ÊÓƵ to deliver life-saving assistance to millions of people in a region marked by conflict, economic instability, and extreme weather events.
COX¡¯S BAZAR ¨C On 3 December, the Government of Bangladesh, the Embassy of Ukraine, the Embassy of Sweden, and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) received 3,000 metric tonnes of sunflower oil contributed through the Grain from Ukraine initiative. Grain from Ukraine is a humanitarian food program launched by the Government of Ukraine to make Ukrainian food commodities available for Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s crisis response. The sunflower oil, worth US$7 million, was funded by the Government of Sweden.
CAIRO ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) received a €3 million contribution from the European Union (EU) that will support delivering faster, more efficient, and better-coordinated humanitarian responses over the next two years across the Middle East, North Africa, and Eastern Europe (MENAEE), one of the world¡¯s most crisis-prone regions.
KYIV ¡ªThe United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a generous contribution of €14.7 million from the European Union to provide people living in frontline areas with food and cash assistance, as well as sustain essential logistics services for humanitarian actors.
KYIV, Ukraine ¡ª?As the war in Ukraine enters its fourth year, an estimated five million Ukrainians are facing food insecurity, with the greatest needs concentrated in areas near the frontlines. According to data collected by the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), millions of people are resorting to coping mechanisms, sacrificing their own meals so their children can eat. Others are going into debt to buy sufficient food supplies to feed their families.
KYIV, 14 November 2024 ¨C Ministers and high-level representatives from across Europe gathered in Kyiv this week to attend the European Regional School Meals Summit, hosted by the Government of Ukraine, with the support of First Lady Olena Zelenska, and within the framework of the School Meals Coalition ¨C a global network of over 100 national governments and 130 partners. The two-day summit, attended by over 20 governments representatives across multiple sectors, underscored the region¡¯s dedication to a shared mission: ensuring that every child worldwide has access to nutritious meals by 2030.
KYIV ¡ª As part of its efforts to support food production in Ukraine, and with funding from France, The UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is delivering US$870,000 worth of equipment to small bakeries located near the frontline.
BLANTYRE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), together with the Government of Malawi¡¯s Department of Disaster Management Affairs (DoDMA), welcomes 19,200 metric tons of maize through the ¡°Grain from Ukraine¡± initiative to support 863,000 households experiencing acute food-insecurity households, due to the El Ni?o-induced drought in Malawi.
KYIV¨C Nearly half a million pensioners living in frontline regions received cash assistance from the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) through a joint programme with the Ministry of Social Policy and the Pension Fund of Ukraine.
KYIV ¨C The Government of Finland generously contributed €2 million to the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), which will support Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s complementary cash assistance to pensioners living in regions near the frontline.
KYIV ¨C Thanks to generous funding from the government of France and private donors, the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) helped schools serve 5.6 million hot meals for close to 90,000 primary school children in the 2023-2024 academic year in Ukraine.
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes the announcement of supplemental emergency humanitarian assistance from the United States government which will be critical in preventing famine and saving millions of lives.
KYIV/RIYADH ¨C The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief) contributed $10 million to the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) to support Ukrainians affected by the war with daily hot meals in 1,200 institutions across the country.
Port Sudan/Nairobi ¨C A shipment of wheat donated by Ukraine to the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Sudan operation has arrived in Port Sudan and is being loaded onto Â鶹ÊÓƵ trucks for emergency food distributions. This in-kind food donation will be a core part of food rations provided to one million conflict-affected people in Sudan for one month.
YOKOHAMA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a grant of US$50 million from the Government of Japan at a time of unprecedented funding shortage. This contribution will enable Â鶹ÊÓƵ to assist vulnerable populations affected by conflict, extreme weather and economic crisis in 20 countries across mainly Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
KYIV ¨C The UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today signed agreements with oblasts to support daily school meals for more than 60,000 children in 420 schools across the country.
KYIV ¨C The Government of Croatia donated €1 million to the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today to help farmers and food producers resume work in regions most affected by explosive remnants of war.
KYIV ¨C?The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) thanked the Government of Japan for its early and generous contribution of US$2 million to support Ukrainian communities affected by the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam.
The programme aims to prevent Ukraine from requiring food assistance in the long term
Kyiv/Rome ¨C The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) have launched a joint programme in collaboration with mine action partner Fondation Suisse de D¨¦minage (FSD) to support smallholder farmers and rural families most affected by the war.
CHI?IN?U/Moldova ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomed a €3 million contribution from France¡¯s Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs to support Ukrainian refugees and Moldovan host families through cash-based transfers until the end of 2023.
KYIV ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and its local partners have started distributing food assistance to 100,000 people in and around Kherson city in areas that had not been reached since March despite multiple attempts from Â鶹ÊÓƵ and other humanitarian agencies to secure access.
KYIV ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and its partners have over the last few days distributed more than 70,000 food rations in Kharkiv oblast, 30,000 rations in Kherson oblast, and 500 rations in Luhansk oblast, reaching communities who have only just become accessible to humanitarian agencies.
CHISINAU ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and its cooperating partners have delivered 1 million hot meals since 15 March to Ukrainian refugees living in Â鶹ÊÓƵ-supported Refugee Accommodation Centres (RACs) in Moldova.
