Awá and Afro communities on the border are teaming up to protect the shellfish supplies they depend on to live — The fishing boat bobs up and down, edging away from the shore towards the lush green and tentacled corridor of the tallest mangrove trees in the world, lying in the waterfronts between Ecuador and Colombia. “I had a very beautiful childhood here,” says…

South Sudanese refugee turned professional photographer inspires more refugees in Uganda through the World Food Programme (WFP) Storytellers project — Bullen, a slight and softly spoken man, is a powerhouse when he takes his camera in hand and stands before his new students — 34 young refugees participating in the WFP Storytellers training in Bidibidi settlement, Uganda. “I was once a refugee, just like you. My journey to be who…

In May this year the UN Security Council passed a resolution that acknowledges the link between hunger and conflict. Karina and Daniel — two of WFP’s newly trained Storytellers in Bidibidi, Uganda, tell us why peace in South Sudan is the only solution to hunger. — Story by Daniel Hassan “We were a happy family in South Sudan. But in those times of insecurity, there was no education and no food. I came to Uganda because of war and hunger.

Biometric verification in Uganda: getting the right food to the right people — The sound of intermittent beeps as ration cards are scanned signal it’s the dawn of a new era in Oruchinga refugee settlement, Southwestern Uganda. Gone are the days of flicking through reams of paper to verify and tick names off — from now on it will be a swift scan…

How WFP protects malnourished families in Karamoja — It’s noon on a day in early July and the heat is stifling at the WFP nutrition screening site in Karamoja. It hasn’t rained for over three weeks, and the lean season is in full swing — leaving almost half a million people in the region with little to eat…

Peter fled South Sudan in his wheelchair. Now with cash to buy food, he and other refugees are fulfilling their most fundamental needs. — Uganda is now the largest refugee hosting country in Africa — with around 1.3 million refugees. 170,000 of these refugees receive assistance from World Food Programme in the form of cash transfers, which are making a real difference to their lives. Peter Kuol, a 49-year-old South Sudanese refugee, has felt at home in Adjumani, Northern Uganda, since he arrived at the end of 2013.

This week the world stands in solidarity with the 1.3 million refugees living in Uganda. Here we meet some of the newest residents of Imvepi refugee settlement. The buses line up daily for the 11am drop-off at Imvepi Reception Centre. As soon as the bus doors swing open, crowds of…