CARACAS ¨C A month after two powerful earthquakes struck north-central Venezuela, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) continues to provide food assistance to communities impacted by the devastation. This unprecedented response, tailored to different needs in each affected area, has already reached more than 100,000 people and, with proper funding, hopes to reach a total of half a million over the next two months.
At the International Social and Behavioral Change Communications Summit, Â鶹ÊÓƵ highlights innovative approaches empowering people to make healthier food choices.
Panama City/Bangkok - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) showcased how integrating social and behavior change approaches across its programs is critical to improving diets and ending hunger at the International Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) Summit, held this week.
CARACAS - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is expanding its school meals programme to include hot meals prepared with fresh food and served to 16,000 school children and staff in over one hundred schools in Falc¨®n state, Venezuela.
CARACAS - The Executive Director of the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), David Beasley, concluded a two-day visit to Venezuela where he met President Nicolas Maduro and consolidated the expansion of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s footprint in the country to reach 1 million children in 2023.
CARACAS ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) marks today the first anniversary of the signing of a memorandum of understanding with the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to establish its presence in the country.
CARACAS ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is expanding its school meals programme in Venezuela to reach more than 110,000 students and school staff in the northwest of the country, building on a pilot programme that started in July 2021 in the state of Falc¨®n.
CARACAS ¨C ?The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) started its school meals programme in Venezuela this week, with the first distributions of take-home food rations to children enrolled in 277 pre-primary schools and to their schools¡¯ staff in all municipalities in the state of Falc¨®n.
CARACAS¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has moved its first food supplies to its logistics hub in Maracaibo, Venezuela, as it prepares to launch its school meals programme for vulnerable school children and school employees in the country.
PANAMA CITY¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has reached an agreement to commence operations in Venezuela with the priority of serving the most vulnerable children.
PANAMA CITY ¨C The socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean could potentially leave around 14 million* vulnerable people in severe food insecurity this year, warranting urgent attention to save lives, according to projections by the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ).
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) was invited by the government of Venezuela to conduct a food security assessment to estimate the needs and vulnerabilities of Venezuelan households.
