Benjamín Flórez

Jedi Knight wannabe working for a sustainable world with #ZeroHunger. Peter Parker used to be my pen name. Views are my own.

[WFP Syria @WFP_Syria]

This World Humanitarian Day, and every day, humanitarian workers face difficult choices and hear unforgettable stories.

Hear from Zuha in Aleppo ❤️

#WHD @WFP

[WFP Syria @WFP_Syria]

“Peace begins with a smile” 🙂.

Following months of disruption amidst funding shortfalls, @WFP is providing emergency food assistance for up to 1.4 million people across #Syria in May 🙌.

We hope to maintain and expand assistance if enough funding is mobilized.🤞

[WFP Syria @WFP_Syria]

After multiple displacements and depleting all resources, Um Ahmad, her children & grandchildren found refuge in this camp in Idlib.

Thanks to @mafrakorea, very vulnerable families in #Syria who suffered the 2023 earthquakes received🇰🇷rice in their @WFP emergency food ration.

[Carl Skau @WFPChief]

This should never happen. Yet, in a few days @WFP will be forced to cut critical food assistance for 2.5 million Syrians in dire need.

I'm calling on our donors and partners at the Brussels Conference on #Syria today to give generously, and to do so quickly – lives are at stake.

[WFP Syria @WFP_Syria]

“They speak to us as we are the last glimmer of hope.”

@WFP field monitor, Oula, explains how it feels to witness people suffer and know she can't do enough.

Rising costs & funding shortfalls will force WFP to cut monthly food assistance from 2.5 million ppl in #Syria in July.

[WFP Syria @WFP_Syria]

"We're constantly fasting anyway."

Amal's normal life is a continuous #Ramadan as she struggles to feed her children and wrestles with malnutrition every day.

@WFP provides Amal with supplementary food & her family with monthly food rations. Check her heartbreaking story📹

[WFP Syria @WFP_Syria]

What can a teacher's salary in #Syria buy for Suhoor or Iftar in #Ramadan?

@kenn_crossley went shopping in Homs to show us the answer.

Catastrophic economic downturn means an average wage in Syria covers about a quarter of a family’s food needs https://t.co/4KkbL9gVWT

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#Ramadan Mubarak from @WFP in Syria!

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"Mohammad keeps asking why I don't bring the food he asks for."

Over 12 years of crises in Syria, Muna have tried it all. She lost her husband and her home. Her children have to work to put food on the table & now she had to move again after the earthquakes damaged her place

[WFP Syria @WFP_Syria]

Conflict and economic constraints caused a break in the fuel pipeline early this year in #Syria. Wheat farmers like Sami will pay the cost.

12 years of conflict, economic downturn and climate shocks slashed wheat production in Syria by 75%.

[WFP Syria @WFP_Syria]

12 years of crises on top of one another have made #Syria one of the most complex humanitarian crises in the world.

@WFP is on the ground delivering humanitarian assistance + sustainable solutions as the only way to stop Syrians from falling deeper into hunger.

#Syria12

[WFP Syria @WFP_Syria]

🔴 Half of the population in #Syria is bearing the burdensome weight of hunger.

🎥 12 years of conflict, skyrocketing prices, fuel shortages, and earthquakes have led to immeasurable devastation.

🗞️News Release: https://t.co/kD6POWmuf1

[WFP Syria @WFP_Syria]

'The cracks in the walls of our house were so large the sunlight came through them', tells us Fatima from #Syria.

Like many impacted by the quakes & sheltering, WFP's food assistance helps her secure food for herself & her 4 children until she figures out the next steps.

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A child’s #nutrition determines their whole future & the consequences of malnutrition can be irreversible

That’s why @WFP is distributing nutrition items to #earthquake-affected children at collective shelters in #Syria.

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"We're concerned what happens when the earthquake is not on news frontpages anymore."

@WFP Syria Deputy Chief, 𝗥𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗦𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗵 speaking to #Journalists at the @UN_Spokesperson Noon briefing on food situation and the challenges facing humanitarian response in #Syria.

[WFP Syria @WFP_Syria]

Responding to emergencies requires reliable & quick access to affected areas.

🛫 @WFP_UNHAS flights are vital for humanitarian workers to travel in #Syria, including to earthquake-affected Aleppo.

Thanks to @eu_echo @CanadaDev @GermanyDiplo & SHF for supporting UNHAS in Syria

[WFP Syria @WFP_Syria]

First responders to the earthquake in #Syria are themselves dealing with its consequences.

Safa's life was shattered by the #earthquake, but working at a @WFP supported kitchen gave her a glimmer of hope. She makes sandwiches for quake-displaced families like hers.

[WFP Syria @WFP_Syria]

Another earthquake hit only 2 weeks after the first one left thousands dead, injured or displaced in #Syria.

"It's a crisis on top of a crisis on top of a crisis." @kenn_crossley speaks about the situation and @WFP response in quake-affected Latakia in the west of Syria.

[Carl Skau @WFPChief]

Today, an important operational update on @WFP’s earthquake response. As we speak, our teams have now reached 2.3 million people in #Turkiye & #Syria with emergency food assistance.

It is critical that we get the funds and the access we need to save lives.

[Carl Skau @WFPChief]

URGENT: the #Turkiye #Syria earthquake isn't the only seismic catastrophe we're facing. While we're going all out to respond, we are also months away from suspending food for 3.8M people in Syria due to lack of $$. Expect another wave of migration to Europe if we do not act ASAP.