WFP DRC

Last week’s #UNDay celebrations brought #WFP together with partners in Kinshasa & Kananga around a shared commitment: leave no one behind. From emergency food assistance to nutrition and resilience, @WFP works with communities and partners to reach those most in need across 🇨🇩.

“Patients who receive care early recover,” says Dr Elisabeth Mathe, Director of Musienene Hospital🇨🇩. Since Ebola reached Musienene, she has seen how early treatment - alongside food assistance for patients and their families -can help people cope during recovery. Learn more 👇

📍Eastern DRC🇨🇩 Forced to flee violence in Ituri, Esther Androsi now lives in Oicha, North Kivu. Insecurity keeps her from farming. With @WFP cash assistance funded by the DRC Humanitarian Fund, she started a small business to help support her five children. Watch her story ⬇️

In Nyamilima, eastern #DRC 🇨🇩, Solange serves locally produced palm oil through #ChakulaSokoni, a WFP programme that gives families digital credit to buy the food they need from local shops. There, @WFP has supported 21,000 people, while strengthening local markets & livelihoods.

In Butembo🇨🇩, Marie Edgarde is a mother of six, a banana seller & a community volunteer. She goes door to door to listen, answer questions & share trusted information on Ebola prevention. “At first, people did not believe the disease was real. Today, more people are listening.”

🇨🇩 “We are here, we are survivors.” When Ebola reached her community, Darlene was working as a nurse. After she contracted the disease, her family feared she might never return home. Today, she is back at work and encouraging others to seek care as soon as symptoms appear.

#SudKivu 🇨🇩 “It has changed my life because I started earning money.” After @WFP-supported vocational training, Ghislaine received cash assistance. She invested in her doughnut business. The mother of 5 is among 2,000 women trained through WFP’s resilience project in Walungu.

Welcome to @LukeJLindberg as he begins his tenure as @WFP Executive Director. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo🇨🇩, conflict and hunger remind us why this mission matters. With government, partners and communities, we can ensure vital assistance reaches those most in need.

≈ 3.5 million pple in Ebola-affected areas of DRC face Crisis-level hunger or worse. Conflict & displacement have already stretched families to the limit. @WFP's David Stevenson explains how food & nutrition assistance so patients & families can remain in treatment or isolation.

A warm welcome to our new @WFPChief, Executive Director @LukeJLindberg.

🇨🇩Francine survived Ebola with two of her children but lost another. Conflict keeps her from reaching her fields, making food assistance a lifeline for her family. 📢Earlier, @WFP's David Stevenson shared her story with world: tinyurl.com/mrvmwrku 📹Now hear it from her👇

🚨 #DRCongo: Ebola has spread to an eighth province. @WFP is delivering food, supporting treatment centres and keeping critical supplies and responders moving as the outbreak expands. 🗞️Read the latest bit.ly/3UjQVr5

The #Ebola response is not over. Since the beginning of the operation, @WFP_UNHAS 🇨🇩 has managed 🚁1,255 flights, transported 10,200 + passengers👥and 153 tons of critical cargo📦. Ensuring humanitarian & health partners can reach affected communities when it matters most.📦

#NorthKivu 🇨🇩 “My children are happy when I return from the market because they know they’ll have enough to eat.”  Through WFP’s Chakula Sokoni, Fabiola, a mother of six in Rutshuru, uses electronic vouchers to choose the food her family needs from local traders.

🇨🇩 “You cannot be treated with medicine without eating." At the Ebola Treatment Centre in Oicha, Anita starts each day helping prepare meals for patients. From the market to the kitchen, every meal she prepares is meant to help them keep up their strength during treatment.👇

For the past 10 years, Maguy Omela has begun her days at Kisangani port, buying vegetables to resell at the market.“Everything I have comes from here,” she says.The trade she learned while still at school now helps her provide food and education for her six children #WorldFoodDay

🇨🇩 “I want my daughters to have the opportunities I never had.” At 55, Véronique is learning to read and write for the first time. With @WFP’s support, this mother of 7 grows vegetables, produces palm oil & earns an income selling sweet potato fries. #WorldFoodDay 🎦Her story👇