Each month in Jordan, Reham gives most of the money she receives from the World Food Programme (WFP) to her mother to buy food for the family. But she saves a small part of it to fund her dream of becoming a teacher.
Fleeing conflict in Ukraine, Sasha and Julia spend their WFP transfer on rent and food for their daughter.
These are just two stories of how cash is helping people through some of the most difficult moments of their lives and helping them build a future where they may no longer need humanitarian assistance.
Based on a decade of evidence, WFP’s new cash policy defines the best way to put money in people’s hands and lay the foundations for greater financial resilience and women’s economic empowerment in the long term. Cash operations make up 35 percent of WFP’s budget and the rise of digital technology and mobile money provides new opportunities for WFP to send money to people in hard-to-reach places.
In 2022, WFP distributed $3.3 billion to over 56 million people in 72 countries, a dramatic increase from 2009 where our cash operations were around $10 million. But the real power of cash goes beyond the dollar value sent to people.
Source: wfp.org
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