NOBEL PRIZE FOR PEACE GOES TO WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME PART OF UN
The UN’s World Food Programme, which won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, delivers food assistance in emergencies, from wars to civil conflicts, natural disasters and famines.
Here are five facts about the Rome-based organisation:
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Beginnings
Created in 1962 on the request of US President Dwight Eisenhower as an experiment to provide food aid through the UN system, WFP had only existed a few months when an earthquake struck northern Iran.
Over 12,000 people died. WFP sent survivors 1,500 metric tons of wheat, 270 tonnes of sugar and 27 tonnes of tea.
Others soon needed its help: a typhoon made landfall in Thailand; war refugees needed feeding in Algeria. CREDITS TO THE HINDU.
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