WFP DRC

Official account of the United Nations World Food Programme (@WFP) in #DRC 🇨🇩 Saving lives and Changing lives to achieve #ZeroHunger

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🇨🇩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: https://t.co/VRD7bxh5tY

📹Now hear it from her👇

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🚨 #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 https://t.co/AOhkB2IKK4

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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.📦

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#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.

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🇨🇩 “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.👇

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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
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🇨🇩 “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.
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🎦Her story👇

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🇨🇩 On 15 Oct, under @WFP Country Director David Stevenson’s leadership, WFP teams & sectoral ministries’ Secretaries-General continued consultations on the 2027–2030 Country Strategic Plan to respond to emergencies & strengthen the resilience of 3.67 million people across DRC.

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@WFP launched #IGNITE to help build a more inclusive, resilient & investment-ready agrifood ecosystem in Kasaï-Central🇨🇩.

It aims to support women & youth-led local agribusiness SMEs to:

✅strengthen value chains,
✅connect with smallholder
✅expand access to markets & finance

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“Hunger is the hardest thing in life.” In eastern DRC, Kavira once struggled to find buyers for rice🍚, beans🫘& soybeans.

Through @WFP’s Chakula Sokoni initiative, displaced families use vouchers to buy from her, supporting local markets & helping her provide for her children.

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“Being here is my contribution to the Ebola response.”

Working with @WFP_UNHAS since 2014, Jean-Christ helps ensure that helicopters🚁can land safely in Mungbwalu 🇨🇩, enabling humanitarian & health teams, & essential supplies, to reach communities affected by the Ebola outbreak.

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🇨🇩 “When families receive food, they can stay at home instead of going out to look for something to eat,” says community volunteer Marie.

A mother of six and banana seller, she spends her days raising awareness about Ebola prevention measures & urging people to seek care early.

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📍Butembo🇨🇩

“My brother is gradually recovering, no longer in the condition he was in when he arrived here,” says Kambale, who left his farm to stay by his brother’s side.
During treatment & isolation, WFP’s daily meals help meet essential food needs for patients and caregivers.

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📍Ituri 

When they brought me food, I regained strength." Displaced by conflict in Ituri, Emmanuella had lost everything before contracting Ebola. During treatment, she received \@WFP's hot meals. 

Now recovered, she helps care for Ebola patients

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Overcoming the challenges of a short runway in #Shabunda 🇨🇩 and harsh rainy-season weather, the @WFP-managed EU Humanitarian Aid Flight🇪🇺 Cessna Caravan carried out an inaugural flight to the area.

The operation delivered 1,200 kg of medicines and medical equipment for @WHO ✈️📦

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Dan dreams of becoming an electrical engineer. 
“Eating at school helps me concentrate and do well in my studies,”he says. 
In Rutshuru, @WFP-supported school meals give students energy to learn, solve problems and build their futures, one lesson and one nutritious meal at a time

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🇨🇩📍 DRC
“The first medicine for the body is food,” says Katembo W. Elie, a health worker and Ebola survivor.

Still recovering at home after leaving the Katwa Ebola treatment centre, he says @wfp’s food assistance is helping him regain strength until he can return to work.

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Evidence guide actions.

From 21 Sept to 7 Oct, IPC analysts from 68 organizations met in 7 hubs across DRC to assess food insecurity, led by the Ministry of Agriculture with @WFP, @FAO & partners.
Their evidence-based analysis will guide humanitarian aid to the most vulnerable.

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📍NorthKivu 🇨🇩

Conflict & theft took away Rosine’s sewing machines and customers’ materials, but not her determination to rebuild.

@WFP cash assistance enabled Rosine to buy a sewing machine and🧵train young women in tailoring. Resilience that creates opportunities for others.

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In Butembo🇨🇩, @OCHA's Deputy director of Crisis response Max Schott highlights what keeps the Ebola response moving & reach affected people: meals for patients, families and health workers, @WFP_UNHAS ✈️ & logistics services.
Continued funding is critical to sustain the response.