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Annual Report 2017 Board of Directors Whatever It Takes ANNUAL REPORT 2017 BOARD OF DIRECTORS CHAIR MEMBERS Randy Russell Hunter Biden Hon. Thomas Daschle VICE CHAIR Hon. Robert Dole Bonnie Raquet Hon. Jo Ann Emerson Hon. Dan Glickman SECRETARY Emily High Daniels Larry Darrow Marshall Matz Carl Stern TREASURER Joe Stone Tony Fratto IN MEMORIAM PRESIDENT & CEO Samuel "Sandy" Berger Richard Leach Hon. George McGovern Cover: Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees have fled violence in Myanmar to safety in Bangladesh. In this photo, a man carries WFP High Energy Biscuits by boat over to a community of refugees stranded on a no-man’s land close to the Bangladeshi border. (©WFP/Saikat Mojumder). Right: Julekha, a Rohingya refugee who is five months pregnant, receives a package of SuperCereal Plus and a plastic jug of fortified semolina to ensure she has good nutrition in the Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. (©WFP/Saikat Mojumder). CONTENTS Our Message To You ................................................2 Global Map: Your Impact in 2017 .............................4 Faces of Hope: Meet Our Global Community ............6 On The Hill: Enhancing U.S. Food Policy ................10 Our Events: Honoring Zero Hunger Champions ......11 Winning the Peace .................................................12 Our Partners: Investing In The Future ....................14 Our Donors ............................................................16 Our Financials .......................................................25 How You Can Help .................................................27 World Food Program USA | Annual Report 2017 1 Opposite: WFP staffer Angel Buitrago operates a drone during one of four workshops held last year to examine how the humanitarian agency can more quickly assess infrastructure, housing and crop damage in the aftermath of natural disasters. When Hurricanes Irma and Maria struck the Caribbean in 2017, Buitrago used drone technology to determine which roadways were still accessible and how many homes had been destroyed. (©WFP/Katiusca Gonzalez). OUR MESSAGE TO YOU How We Win The Peace Vision. Sacrifice. Faith in a better and kept millions of children in the classroom thanks tomorrow. to nutritious school meals. Innovations reimagined our road to Zero Hunger, including the use of drones Seventy years ago, President Harry Truman used the to quickly assess the damage of natural disasters first-ever televised presidential address to talk about war and satellite technology to show how sustainable and hunger. As families in Europe faced food shortages development projects are building more resilient after the Second World War, he asked Americans to give communities. And our Winning the Peace report offered up meat on Tuesdays, eggs and poultry on Thursdays and fresh insight into how hunger drives conflict and what to save a slice of bread each day. He called upon farmers must be done to sever the link—once and for all. to conserve grain and boost the continent’s recovery with the help of U.S. food aid. Here at World Food Program USA, we know progress is possible thanks to the dedication of supporters like you. Now, 70 years later, you and the American people are And we will maximize the impact of your generosity by leading once again. pushing for change in the U.S. Congress to ensure that Protracted civil war in countries such as Yemen and Syria emergency food assistance, safety net programs, good has pushed millions to the brink of starvation. The twin nutrition, and agricultural development are robust pillars threats of conflict and extreme weather have converged of a world where everyone can reach their full potential. in the Sahel of Africa, displacing families from their This is our time to lead yet again. With your help, homes. Still others migrate across borders in search of we will win the peace. opportunity. As the ranks of the hungry swell, we must answer a profound question: How do we win the peace? Sincerely, We know the way forward—and in 2017, you helped Rick Leach the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) President and CEO save and change lives. By delivering food to the most Randy Russell vulnerable, WFP rolled back famine in South Sudan Board Chair 2 World Food Program USA | Annual Report 2017 World Food Program USA | Annual Report 2017 3 Your Impact In 2017 91 million people reached 18 million children received school meals MAP KEY WFP operations in 10 million people received food 83 countries in exchange for work to build WFP school meals programs their resilience in 60 countries Active top level (L3) emergency operations: Bangladesh Democratic Republic of Congo Northeast Nigeria 5,000 trucks, 92 airplanes, 20 ships South Sudan Syria on the move daily Yemen 4 World Food Program USA | Annual Report 2017 World Food Program USA | Annual Report 2017 5 Fighting global hunger takes a village. From the generosity of our supporters in the U.S. to the courage of WFP’s aid workers in the field to the resilience of communities overcoming hardship, the story of WFP’s impact is the story of people working together. Here are three such stories. Meet Our Global Community WFP staff meet people who live in Duma, Eastern Ghouta, a long-besieged area of Syria. (©WFP/Hussam Al Saleh). 6 World Food Program USA | Annual Report 2017 FACES OF HOPE SYRIA: YOUR IMPACT Syria 5.26 million people reached 533 airlifts of food 1.8 million people supported in 309 airdrops of food hard-to-reach or besieged areas on 45 interagency convoys Elementary teacher Donna DeVito believes there’s one lesson in particular that children should learn as early as possible: the power of generosity As WFP’s When conflict and caring for others. So last year she former Country broke out in and her classroom of first-graders in Director in Syria, Syria, Shareef and Westchester, Illinois created the Splash Jakob Kern oversaw one of the agency’s his family were forced to flee their home Cafe, a breakfast fundraiser to help most dangerous and complicated in Damascus for the rural countryside feed hungry children in the world’s operations on the planet. Yet high- where he grew up. At 70 years old, poorest classrooms. Wearing chef hats altitude airdrops and truck convoys into he now tends one acre of land that and enormous smiles, her students sold besieged communities represent just a he inherited from his father. “I found baked goods for as little as a quarter fraction of the humanitarian agency's myself returning to my roots this time each—the same cost as one school meal work inside the country. Increasingly, doing what I avoided as a young man,” from WFP—then donated their profits to WFP is working to help Syrian families Shareef told WFP. “But I discovered that World Food Program USA to support the feed themselves through livelihood growing is also building.” Last year the planet’s largest school meals program. “I projects like beekeeping, tomato- humanitarian agency provided monthly think children helping other children is a growing and so-called “kitchen gardens.” food rations to smallholder farmers like beautiful thing. My students have learned “If a family has a plot of land, we buy Shareef so they could put food on the that you are never too young to make a them equipment like hoses for irrigation, table between harvests. difference in the world.” tools, seeds to start,” he told WFP USA. “When they harvest, they can keep whatever they need for themselves and the rest they can sell so it's the whole cycle from the farm to the consumer.” Above: ©Donna DeVito Above: ©WFP/Hussam Al Saleh Above: © WFP/Hussam Al Saleh World Food Program USA | Annual Report 2017 7 FACES OF HOPE SOUTH SUDAN: YOUR IMPACT South Sudan 4.8 million people reached 135 rapid response missions reached 1.8 million people 1.7 million mothers and children received nutritional support Operated 100 trucks, 16 barges, 7 cargo planes, and 6 helicopters Women Physicians for Humanity (WP4H) was founded by a small group of female doctors who banded together in response to the heartbreaking image of a Syrian child WFP staffer In the town whose body had washed ashore in George of Ganyiel in Turkey. Last year WP4H joined forces Fominyen was South Sudan’s with WFP USA to crowdsource enough living in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, Unity State, 7-year-old Peter Mabor funding for WFP to execute a lifesaving when conflict first erupted in 2013. In watches the sky as a WFP plane soars airdrop in South Sudan, where millions his role as a Communications Officer, overhead, dropping bags of grains, of people were teetering on the brink of Fominyen has met South Sudanese beans and vegetable oil that couldn’t be famine. The airdrop fed 1,600 people for families across the country who now rely delivered by river or road as a result of an entire month at a time of desperate on the humanitarian agency’s emergency fighting and flooding.Peter has watched need. “We’re so grateful to every single food assistance to survive. 2017 marked these airdrops so many times that he person who donated, because every Fominyen’s fifth and final year serving in can craft his own model airplane out donation came from the heart, and South Sudan before being transferred to of mud. He calls these planes gwad—or every donation is so meaningful and his next post. “As I wrote to colleagues “big wings”—and told WFP staffer George so impactful,” says Dr. Yasmine Khalil, on the day I left the country: The Fominyen last year that he looks forward a member of the group’s Board of people’s stories of joy, pain, suffering to these airdrops and what they bring: Directors. “It’s a bigger reflection of how and hope will always remain with me,” yellow split peas and red sorghum for many people care.” Fominyen told our team.
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