Summary of WFP assistance
WFP’s Emergency Operation (EMOP) is focused on supporting the medical 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 quarantined households and to protect households in areas most affected by the virus as well as EVD driven vulnerable groups.
Alongside the EMOP, WFP manages the regional Special Operation (SO), enabling the global response of the humanitarian community by providing logistics support, supply chain, infrastructure development, emergency telecommunications, and humanitarian air services across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
WFP is preparing to resume its Country Programme (CP) to provide treatment for moderate acute malnutrition in children aged 6-59 months and pregnant and nursing women. Livelihood development activities including tree planting, fish farming, and swamp rehabilitation are also expected to resume which will help support Ebola recovery priorities. While the programme has been on hold due to the Ebola outbreak and subsequent risks of EVD transmission in group settings, WFP has continued to provide food assistance to patients living with HIV.