The World Food Program is scaling up its humanitarian operations in conflict-torn Yemen with help from a new $31.4 million contribution from Germany.
WFP said it will use Germany’s contribution to distribute 20,000 metric tons of food aid, such as specialized nutritional products, oil and fortified wheat flour. The money will also support the program’s Food for Girls’ Education initiative, which offers food rations as incentives for Yemeni families to keep girls in schools.
WFP has started scaling up its operations in Yemen in response to the growing needs in the country, which is experiencing civil unrest, a food and fuel price hike and crumbling social services. The program said it aims to feed up to 3.5 million people, with a focus on 1.8 million severely insecure people lving in Yemen’s 14 poorest governorates. WFP added that the total cost of its scaled-up response is $207 million.
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