Record food and fuel prices, exacerbated by the crisis in Ukraine, the continuing conflict in some parts of the country and disastrous earthquakes, have taken a devastating toll on Syria’s most vulnerable people. The global economic crisis means the number of people receiving subsidized food and fuel under the national social safety net programmes is being reduced.
WFP has been forced to progressively reduce the size of its food rations due to lack of sufficient funding and supply chain disruptions. Families are having to choose between food, school, medicine or fuel, as they cannot afford them all. Early marriage and removing children from school are on the rise.
WFP provides life-saving food assistance to 5.6 million people in Syria each month. This assistance supports families with food rations and/or value vouchers to buy food, provides schoolchildren across the country with healthy snacks, and prevents and treats malnutrition in mothers and children.
What the World Food Programme is doing to respond to the Syria emergency?
WFP provides food to 5.6 million people in all 14 governorates, to prevent them from slipping further into hunger. WFP distributes this food to some of the country’s most vulnerable families who have been affected by conflict, economic decline and climate change. WFP is scaling up its cash-based assistance, for families to buy the food of their choice from WFP-contracted retailers. This in turn creates job opportunities within the local market and injects cash into the local economy.
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