Summary of WFP assistance
WFP’s Emergency Operation is focused on supporting the health response to stop the spread of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) by meeting the basic food and nutrition needs of affected families and communities in Sierra Leone. WFP provides food assistance to care for patients and their caretakers in treatment centres and to survivors upon discharge, to contain the spread of the virus in hotspot communities and to quarantined households and to protect households and communities in areas most affected by the virus.
Alongside food assistance, WFP’s Special Operation supports the global response of the humanitarian community by facilitating logistics support, infrastructure development, emergency telecommunications, and humanitarian air services across the Ebola affected countries. Storage and transport services are facilitated at Port Loko, Lungi airport, and Freetown with Forward Logistics Bases in Makeni, Kenema and Kailahun on standby, and, if needed, can be operationalised within 48 hours.