In Numbers
368 mt of food assistance distributed
USD 55,892 cash-based transfers made
USD 2.8 m six-month (May – October 2022) net funding requirements
125,286 people assisted in April 2022
Operational Updates
• Reaching a total of 4,425 beneficiaries, WFP provided food assistance to malnourished HIV/TB clients (52 percent women) and their households to support their food security and adherence to treatment in Conakry and Boké as part of WFP nutrition activities.
• WFP pursued chronic malnutrition prevention activities in 16 health centres by providing specialized nutritious foods to 1,158 children aged 6-24 months (43 percent girls). In addition, 1,074 pregnant and lactating women (PLWs) received soap, awareness raising sessions and culinary demonstrations in nine health centres to improve nutrition and hygiene practices using local products of high nutritional value.
• Supported by the Peacebuilding Fund (PBF), WFP distributed USD 35,400 through cash-based transfer (CBT) to 10 schools for school feeding activities in N’zerekore. Furthermore, WFP provided USD 20,440 in cash transfers to 263 farmer households (68 percent women) in the regions of Nzerekore.
• Across the 862 schools covered by WFP's school feeding programme for the 2021-2022 school year, 117,056 children received daily hot meals in April. In addition, the delivery of 495 metric tons of food to schools for the last quarter of the current school year has been completed.
• In April, the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) extended its destinations and transported a total of 140 passengers and 1.8 metric tons of light cargo (including vaccines, safety equipment and medicines) between N’zerekore, Kankan, Labe and Kissidougou. Due to rehabilitation work, Nzerekore airport was closed, and WFP is temporarily flying to Beyla until Nzerekore airport reopens.
• Community-based participatory planning (CBPP) was carried out in 15 villages in the sub-prefectures of Banian, Songoya and Hérémakonon (Faranah) as part of the PBF-funded project “Building cross-border peace and strengthening sustainable livelihoods of cattle herders and crop farmers in Sierra Leone and Guinea” jointly implemented with the International Organization for Migration and Talking Drum Studio.