jan 1, 1961 - World Food Progam established
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In 1960, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed to the U.N. General Assembly that “a workable scheme should be devised for providing food aid through the U.N. system.” The following year, the assembly approved the establishment of the World Food Program (WFP) on a three-year experimental basis. The WFP got off the ground immediately, however, providing urgently needed food supplies to the victims of a 1962 earthquake (Iran) and hurricane (Thailand), as well as to some 5 million refugees resettling in Algeria. Today, though there are still some 805 million starving people in the world, the efforts of the WFP have helped that number fall by more than 100 million in the past decade. As of 2014, the program provides food to some 90 million people every year, including 58 million children.
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